A Calorimetric Description of the Digestion of Organic Matter in Landfills

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 3 Issue 6 (1998), S1430-4171(98)06268-0

A Calorimetric Description of the Digestion of Organic Matter in Landfills

Laura Meraz and Armando Domínguez*

Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Apartado Postal 55-534, 09340 México D.F. México

Published online: 1 December 1998

Abstract. Global heat balances with biomass production for aerobic and anaerobic biodigestion of organic matter are proposed. These balances nicely illustrate the thermodynamic differences between these two kinds of biodigestion, and illustrate, in a simple way, a landfill’s potential for recycling energy originally contained in waste.

Key Words: In the Classroom; biodigestion; biomass; carbon; heat; energy; enthalpy; landfill; methane; thermodynamic; waste

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: doar@xanum.uam.mx)

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