Drone Gas Concentration Measurement System for Landfills

Montoya, Javier Mendoza; Olsson., Annakarin; Mårtensson, Stig-Göran; Chilo, José

doi:10.1109/i2mtc43012.2020.9129192

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“…Several interesting applications of drone-borne instrumentation for methane emission monitoring have been proposed recently (Table 9). For example, in Montoya et al [144], the authors deployed a drone-based set-up equipped with low-cost MOS sensors for detection of CH 4 , CO, and CO 2 . The authors have carried out laboratory and field measurements with promising results for further development.…”

Section: Waste and Wastewater Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drone-Assisted Monitoring of Atmospheric Pollution—A Comprehensive Review

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Ambient air quality is a complex issue that depends on multiple interacting factors related to emissions coming from energy production and use, transportation, industrial processes, agriculture, and waste and wastewater treatment sectors. It is also impacted by adverse meteorological conditions, pollutants concentrations, their transport and dispersion in the atmosphere, and topographic constraints. Therefore, air pollutants distribution is not uniform and their monitoring at proper temporal and spatial resolution is necessary. Drone-borne analytical instrumentation can fulfill these requirements. Thanks to the rapid development in the drone manufacturing sector as well as in the field of portable detectors construction, applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for atmospheric pollution monitoring are growing. The purpose of this work is to give an overview of this matter. Therefore, this paper contains basic information on UAVs (i.e., description of different types of drones with their advantages and disadvantages) and analytical instrumentation (i.e., low-cost gas sensors, multi-sensor systems, electronic noses, high-accuracy optical analyzers, optical particle counters, radiation detectors) used for the monitoring of airborne pollution. Different ways of payload integration are addressed and examples of commercially available solutions are given. Examples of applications of drone-borne analytical systems for pollution monitoring coming from natural (i.e., volcanoes, thawing permafrost, wildfires) and anthropological (i.e., urbanization and industrialization; extraction, transport and storage of fossil fuels; exploitation of radioactive materials; waste and wastewater treatment; agriculture) sources are also described. Finally, the current limitations and future perspectives are discussed. Although there is a great potential for drones applications in the field of atmospheric pollution monitoring, several limitations should be addressed in the coming years. Future research should focus on improving performances of available analytical instrumentation and solving problems related to insufficient payload capacity and limited flight time of commonly used drones. We predict that applications of drone-assisted measurements will grow in the following years, especially in the field of odor pollution monitoring.

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Drone-Assisted Monitoring of Atmospheric Pollution—A Comprehensive Review

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“…Recently the authors in [5] have presented an estimation of the methane generation rate in a landfill site which was computed as 0.012 per year and the methane generation capacity as 54.26 m3 /Mg. The authors have yet to find much written about the measurement of gases emitted in landfills; however, these measurements were performed with some value approximation when measuring greenhouse gases.…”

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Methane emission measurement wireless system for monitoring air pollution close to Chilla-Juliaca landfill

Mendoza Montoya,

Rondan Zanabria,

Velarde

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 21th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology (LACCEI 2023): “Leaders

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In many countries, most organic waste is usually placed in landfills, which generates public concern about the health effects of emissions pollutants. The natural bacterial decomposition of organic waste produces landfill gases, about half of the methane, with the remainder mainly carbon dioxide and minor amounts of other gases. Real-time measurement and modeling of emissions gases in landfills are essential. This work develops a low-cost wireless measurement system using MOS gas sensors (MQ4, MQ5, and MQ9), a 32 bits microcontroller, an XBee module, and HC-12 wireless communications modules. The system can be mounted on an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV, drone) or deployed as a wireless sensor network. Experiments have been carried out near a closed landfill, and measurement results show high methane concentrations.

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