The present work presents the study of the energy production and use of the biogas produced at Palmas Landfill, Tocantins, together with the environmental monitoring of the quality of the surface and groundwater resources of the area of direct interference of the Landfill, and the verification of the environmental compliance of the project through the Residual Landfill Quality Index - RQI. The groundwater and surface water samples were collected in April 2018 in the monitoring wells installed in the Sanitary Landfill, following the current norms and environmental legislation inherent to the subject matter. Thus, the results obtained for the parameters pH, temperature, total solids, suspended solids and volatile solids, turbidity, alkalinity, arsenic gas dissolved in the liquid medium, cyanides, and metals are presented: barium, cadmium, lead, copper, chromium, iron, mercury and nickel, performed in both the surface and groundwater samples carried out by the development of the present study. The study of biogas production produced by the Landfill was conducted according to the data provided by the municipality about the quantity and quality of the residues disposed in the Sanitary Landfill, in addition to the local climatic conditions, that directly interfere in the stabilization of the organic matter confined inside the massif of waste, which in a direct way, interferes with the generation of biogas by Landfill. The verification of the Residual Landfill Quality Index (RQI), was verified through the verification of the conditioners present in the indicator, as well as information collected locally and passed on by the Economist Antônio Adeluzio Gomes Azevedo, an operational technician of the Landfill. It is concluded, with the development of the present study, that the ground water and surface waters in the area of direct interference of the Sanitary Landfill of Palmas - TO, do not have pollution/contamination resulting from the current use of the area as Landfill, based on in the data reported in the literature and confirmed through the execution of the present study. The RQI measurement at Palmas Sanitary Landfill - TO, presented a sum of 9.3 points, reflecting, in this way, adequate conditions for final accommodation of municipal solid waste. With regard to the generation of biogas, it is possible to supply about 3,251 residences with electricity generated by biogas, thus transmitting, in the real viability of the energy utilization of the biogas generated by the Landfill of Palmas, Tocantins.
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