Integrated Process for Landfill and Leachate Management: Experimentally Informed Design of Waste-to-Energy Conversation for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Mitigation

Principal Investigator

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  Jillian Goldfarb

  Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Co-Principal Investigator

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  Chitanya Gopu

  2015 Early Stage Urban Research Award Recipient

With her project, Research Assistant Professor Jillian Goldfarb searches for a scheme to reduce the energy required to manage MSW and leachate landfills and develop new ways and materials to reduce waste and slow the spread of contaminants.

Goldfarb will address municipal solid waste (MSW) management in urban areas by using pyrolysis to produce energy and biochar, converted to activated carbons for leachate treatment. This integrated process improves the economic viability of MSW management while providing an environmentally compliant, cost-effective long-term strategy for solid waste management.

The goal is to identify an environmentally compliant, cost-effective long-term strategy for solid waste management.

Professor Goldfarb received a Fulbright Scholarship to continue this research in Italy.

Publications

Upneja, A., Dou, G., Gopu, C., Johnson, C., Newman, A., Suleimenov, A & Goldfarb, J. (2016). Sustainable waste mitigation: biotemplated nanostructured ZnO for photocatalytic water treatment via extraction of biofuels from hydrothermal carbonization of banana stalk.RSC Adances, 6, 92813-92823.

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