호기성 폐기물매립지의 온실가스 감축효율 및 메탄보정계수(MCF) 평가

This study aims to analyze greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in anerobic municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills to evaluate the efficiency of active aeration in the reduction of GHG and to verify the accuracy of the methane correction factor (MCF) reported in the 2019 Refinement (i.e., 0.4). Experimental results revealed that the GHG reduction efficiency was 61.1%, which is slightly lower than that reported in literature. However, under the assumption that active aeration was applied to all MSW landfills in Korea in 2018, this finding indicates that active aeration reduced GHG emissions by 4.7 million tons of CO2eq., which is approximately equivalent to 60% of the emissions from the MSW landfills. This corresponds to the 2030 GHG reduction target of Korea’s waste sector. This indicates that the application of active aeration to MSW landfills is essential for reducing GHG emissions from the waste sector. The calculated MCF of the landfill with a methane concentration of 5% or less under aerobic conditions was 0.31 to 0.34, which is lower than the MCF default value suggested in the IPCC guideline (i.e., 0.4). However, further research on MCF in aerobic landfill should be conducted.