INVOLCAN and ITER continue the study on methane emissions in catalan landfills

The regional landfill of Pla de l’Estany, located in Puigpalter (Girona) is the fourth Catalan landfill that has been subject of research by the scientific team of the Environment Area of ITER and INVOLCAN.

Scientists from the Environment Area of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER) and the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) collaborate with the Composting Research Group (GICOM) of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in an investigation on the emission of methane (CH₄ ) to the atmosphere in Catalan landfills financed by the Agència de Residus de Catalunya (ARC) of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

From the 15 to 17 March, an INVOLCAN researcher and scientific collaborator of the ITER Environment Area, Dr. María Asensio Ramos, has been working in Catalonia with Dr. Daniel González Alé, from the UAB, to materialize a scientific campaign whose purpose is to determine the fugitive emission of methane (CH₄) into the atmosphere by the regional landfill of Pla de l’Estany, located in Puigpalter, province of Girona.

With this work, there are now 4 Catalan landfills that have been the subject of research by the ITER-INVOLCAN scientific team. The other 3 studies have been carried out in the landfills Centre de Tractament de Residus municipals d’Osona and Can Mata in Els Hostalets de Pierola, both in the province of Barcelona, and the landfill of Castellnou de Seana located in the province of Lleida.