EH. Total heat energy
(Etotal) can be estimated by adding thermal losses in the landfill
system to EH. Thermal losses are determined using conductive heat
transfer analysis (Yesiller et al., 2015a) and therefore are time
dependent in magnitude. The energy calculated using this
approach represents the net accumulated heat energy in relation
to a given threshold temperature (e.g., T(x,t), TLFG). If the energy is
extracted or regulated, heat generation will continue in the waste
mass with time (at a potentially modified rate). Therefore, both Eh
and EH provide conservative estimates for thermal energy available