Establishment of Energy Potential of Norio Landfill of Municipal Solid Waste of Tbilisi

In November 2010 the new landfill has been put into service in Tbilisi, the territory of which equals to 94 ha and is divided by inner roads into several areas, on which the waste disposal cells (area 5 ha) are installed. The goal of our project was the determination (elaboration of energetic scenarios) of economically profitable ways of utilization/application of basic greenhouse gas CH4, on the basis of inventory of methane emission from Norio landfill of municipal solid waste of Tbilisi city by IPCC methodology, and prevention from global climate changes caused by greenhouse gases with the use of methane in the energy sphere. The share of the landfill of municipal solid waste in the greenhouse gases emission in Georgia equals to 7% of the total emission of CH4 and CO2 that is very high rate. Our goal was the determination of amount of greenhouse gases (CH4 and CO2) emerged on the Norio landfill and forecasting of gases emission for the subsequent period. According to inventory data the whole potential of methane emission from Norio landfills equals to 930 mln. m3.