Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions

Małgorzata Pawłowska, Ph.D., Sc.D. is a researcher and lecturer working at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of Lublin University of Technology. From 2012 she is a head of the Department of Alternative Fuels Engineering.She received her M.Sc. of the philosophy of nature and the protection of the environment at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1993. In 1999 she received her Ph.D. in agrophysics after defence the thesis entitled: “A possibility of the reduction of methane emission form landfill by its biochemical oxidation in landfill cover—model study”, at the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Science.Mrs. Pawłowska is an author and co-author of fifty five papers and book chapters, two monographs, one handbook on biofuels, five patents and several patent applications. She is also the co-editor of two monographs. The major areas of her scientific interest is control of gas emission from landfills, with special attention to methane and BTEX biooxidation in landfill covers and biofilters. She is also working on biogas production from waste.

• About the author, Abbreviations and symbol, 1. Landfilling of municipal solid waste in global perspective, 2. Characteristics of landfill gas, 3. Increasing landfill gas production and recovery, 4. Attenuation of greenhouse gas emissions via landfill aeration, 5. Biological oxidation as a method for mitigation of LFG emission