Does Continuous Monitoring Accurately Detect Landfill Methane? FluxLab Tests Qube
Beyond oil and gas, continuous monitoring is an established technology for managing emissions at diverse sites like landfills, mines, and biogas facilities. Qube Technologies recently shared results from a validation program conducted in partnership with FluxLab, focusing on methane detection at scale.
Validated Performance Across Diverse Sites
Qube's monitoring model has been successfully deployed in diverse environments with complex emission profiles and large physical scales.
These include:
Large mine sites
Biogas facilities
Covered and uncovered manure lagoons
Active and reclaimed landfills
The FluxLab Testing Results
In a controlled release test program at a landfill scale, Qube's model demonstrated exceptional accuracy. The program simulated large-scale landfill emissions, testing both the spatial distribution and the rate of methane release. The results showed that:
Predictions were within 10% of the ground truth.
The model achieved an R-squared of 0.8, indicating minimal bias and spread in the data.
These enhancements enable Qube’s model to reliably monitor methane emissions across a wide range of site types and leak behaviors, offering a robust solution for environmental management.