DC water’s sewer-methane carbon footprint

John Willis; Haydee DeClippeleir; Walter Graf; Akshay Kumar; Barry Lucas; Sudhir Murthy; Chris Peot; Pusker Regmi; Abhiram Satyadev; Charles Sweeney; Keshab Sharma; Hiram Tanner; Zhiguo Yuan

DC water’s sewer-methane carbon footprint

John Willis^*
, Haydee DeClippeleir
, Walter Graf
, Akshay Kumar
, Barry Lucas
, Sudhir Murthy
, Chris Peot
, Pusker Regmi
, Abhiram Satyadev
, Charles Sweeney
, Keshab Sharma
, Hiram Tanner
, Zhiguo Yuan

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has identified that sewers in the developing world do produce methane (CH₄) but has in contract proposed that wastewater in closed, underground sewers in the developed world are not a significant CH₄ source. Other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions protocols have followed IPCC’s lead and have ignored sewer CH₄. The protocols’ simplification has been routinely contradicted by research where significant CH₄ emissions have been repeatedly detected from both pressure mains and gravity sewers. This paper reports data collected as part of the WERF Conveyance Asset Prediction System Project Modeling and Mitigation (CAPS; WERF Project Number U5R12) to calibrate a biological sewer model that simulates the sulfur- and carbon-based transformations within gravity sewers. The methane emissions observed are significant; however, based on preliminary results presented herein, there is reason for optimism in that some sewer-odor- and sewer-corrosion-mitigation chemicals can simultaneously reduce CH₄ emissions. Copyright ©2015 Water Environmental Federation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	88th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC 2015)
Publisher	Water Environment Federation
Pages	5765-5776
Volume	10
ISBN (Print)	9781510870468
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	88th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC 2015 - Chicago, United States Duration: 26 Sept 2015 → 30 Sept 2015

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Name	Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC

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Conference	88th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC 2015
Place	United States
City	Chicago
Period	26/09/15 → 30/09/15

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UN SDGs

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SDG 13 Climate Action

Research Keywords

Biological model
Gravity sewers
Greenhouse gases
Hydrogen sulfide
Methane

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Willis, J., DeClippeleir, H., Graf, W., Kumar, A., Lucas, B., Murthy, S., Peot, C., Regmi, P., Satyadev, A., Sweeney, C., Sharma, K., Tanner, H., & Yuan, Z. (2015). DC water’s sewer-methane carbon footprint. In 88th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC 2015) (Vol. 10, pp. 5765-5776). (Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC). Water Environment Federation.

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DC water’s sewer-methane carbon footprint. / Willis, John; DeClippeleir, Haydee; Graf, Walter et al.
88th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC 2015). Vol. 10 Water Environment Federation, 2015. p. 5765-5776 (Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC).

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DC water’s sewer-methane carbon footprint

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