Landfills gas emissions and the associated air quality, energy and climate change implications in South Africa

dc.contributor.author	Bhailall, Shaazia
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-17T08:07:33Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-17T08:07:33Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description	A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2016.
dc.description.abstract	Global methane (CH4) emissions are divided mostly into three sources; biogenic, thermogenic and pyrogenic. The sources can be anthropogenic or natural in origin. Anthropogenic sources include emissions associated with agriculture (rice paddies and ruminants), waste (landfill and waste water), biomass burning and fossil fuels. Landfills have been implicated as one of the largest anthropogenic sources of atmospheric CH4 globally and as a significant contributor to global warming. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report anthropogenic sources account for 304 – 368 TgCH4/year and methanogenesis in landfills and waste contributes between 67 and 90 TgCH4/year to this amount (between 22 and 24% of emissions).	en_ZA
dc.description.librarian	GR2016	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21210
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh	Climatic changes--South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Air quality--South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Landfill gases
dc.title	Landfills gas emissions and the associated air quality, energy and climate change implications in South Africa	en_ZA
dc.type	Thesis	en_ZA

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