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EPA engages UT Arlington environmental engineers team to generate energy from landfills in Ghana

Mon, Sep 09, 2013 21:43 CET

Grant to pay for feasibility study in GhanaTwo UT Arlington environmental engineers are adapting a sensor system they have developed to boost methane production in landfills to create an alternative energy source in Ghana. Sahadat Hossain and Melanie Sattler, both associate professors of civil engineering , have won a $100,000 grant through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Global Methane Initiative to study the feasibility of landfill gas to energy in Ghana, in the western Africa country of about 24 million

UT Arlington civil engineers increasing energy created from solid waste

Wed, Dec 19, 2012 22:12 CET

Project to double power generated by landfill methane gasTwo UT Arlington civil engineering professors are working with a new imaging system that has doubled the amount of methane gas produced by the city of Denton landfill. The landfill is the first in Texas to implement the Enhanced Leachate Recirculation system. The gas now provides power for about 1,500 Denton households. However, with increased efficiency of ELR operation, the system will be able to power 3,000 homes in the city of 117,000, officials said. Sahadat Hossain and Melanie Sattler, associate professors of civil

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EPA engages UT Arlington environmental engineers team to generate energy from landfills in Ghana

UT Arlington civil engineers increasing energy created from solid waste

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