Electric power generation from landfill gas using traditional and innovative technologies

Energy recovery from waste represents an important way to reduce the amount of electric energy to be produced using fossil fuels, i.e. non-renewable sources of energy. Moreover, the energy recovery practice can present interesting economic revenues. Since, at the present time, a large amount of waste is disposed in landfills, it is clear how the use of end life products as fuel can present a noticeable relevance. In the present study, different landfill gas (LFG) energy recovery systems, including traditional and innovative technologies, are analyzed through a technoeconomic and an environmental comparison