Methane from waste as fuel for motor vehicles

Abstract

In this scientific work we have analyzed the issues about production biogas from landfills, the experience of waste management, compare advantages and disadvantages for the biogas usage by vehicles and assessment of biogas production from landfill (in case - Stadnytske landfill in Ukraine). Compared with gasoline in the exhaust gases of the methane engine contains 2-3 times less carbon oxide, 2 times less nitrogen oxide, smoke pollution is reduced by 9 times. The landfill gas and biogas from organic waste are the alternative source of fuel and the process of fuel generation occurs naturally by decomposition. Methane is lighter than air and cannot form a mixture - it just dissipates. From one special landfill we can fill up 492 000 000 gas-cylinders. The biogas from bioreactors and from landfills has great potential for the energy sphere. So, by applying the reviewed methodologies for utilization it is possible to develop a local mechanism which use more environmentally friendly and less expensive fuel for vehicles.