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TECHNICAL REPORTS
Atmospheric Pollutants and Trace Gases

Laboratory-Scale Measurement of Trace Gas Fluxes from Landfarm Soils

^a Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, P.O. Box 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany, Formerly with the Dep. of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph
^b Dep. of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1
^c School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1

* Corresponding author (sausma{at}alumni.uwaterloo.ca)

Received for publication November 19, 2001. Trace gas emissions from refinery and bioremediation landfarms were investigated in a mesocosm-scale simulator facility. Five simulators were constructed and integrated with a data acquisition system and trace gas analyzers, allowing automated real-time sampling and calculation of total hydrocarbon (THC), CO₂, and water vapor fluxes. Experiments evaluating the influence of simulated cultivation and rainfall on trace gas fluxes from the soil surfaces were conducted. Results were compared with published field results. Results showed that cultivating dry or moderately wet soil resulted in brief enhancements of THC fluxes, up to a factor of 10, followed by a sharp decline. Cultivating dry soil did not enhance respiration. Cultivating wet soil did result in sustained elevated levels of respiration. Total hydrocarbon emissions were also briefly enhanced in wet soils, but to a lesser magnitude than in dry soil. Hydrocarbon fluxes from refinery landfarm soil were very low for the duration of the experiments. This lead to the conclusion that elevated THC fluxes would only be expected during waste application. An evaluation of the influence of simultaneous water vapor fluxes on other trace gas fluxes highlighted the importance in lab-scale experiments of correcting trace gas fluxes from soils. The results from this research can be used to guide management practices at landfarms and to provide data to aid in assessing the effect of landfarms.

Abbreviations: DOY, day of year • DSL, Delhi sandy loam • MAC, MacDowell Lake landfarm • RL, refinery landfarm • THC, total hydrocarbon