2018 CEE Zekkos Landfill Drones
Cassandra Champagne (left), Graduate Student Research Assistant in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Dimitrios Zekkos, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, take traditional measurements of methane gas emissions inside a landfill in Midland, MI. on October 16, 2018.
Using drones, Zekkos and his team are implementing techniques for monitoring methane gas emissions in a manner more time efficient, cost efficient, and accurate than current practices.
Methane gas (CH4) is generated in landfills through the anaerobic (absence of oxygen) digestion of the buried waste and is estimated by the EPA to be 28-36 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere because it is that much more efficient at trapping heat in the ozone.
Photo: Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
2018 CEE Zekkos Landfill Drones
Cassandra Champagne (left), Graduate Student Research Assistant in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Dimitrios Zekkos, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, take traditional measurements of methane gas emissions inside a landfill in Midland, MI. on October 16, 2018.
Using drones, Zekkos and his team are implementing techniques for monitoring methane gas emissions in a manner more time efficient, cost efficient, and accurate than current practices.
Methane gas (CH4) is generated in landfills through the anaerobic (absence of oxygen) digestion of the buried waste and is estimated by the EPA to be 28-36 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere because it is that much more efficient at trapping heat in the ozone.
Photo: Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing