Modelling leachate quality and quantity in municipal solid waste landfills

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 78-92

  Yildiz, Ebru Demirekler ^a   Ünlü, Kahraman ^a   Rowe, R Kerry ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Landfill; Leachate flow; Leachate quality; Modelling; Waste stabilization; wmr 649 9

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; HYDRAULICS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

LEACHATE QUALITY; METHANOGENESIS;

SOLID WASTES;

LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; FLOW; GAS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROORGANISM; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTOR; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SIMULATION; SOLID WASTE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; SYNTHESIS; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONTARIO; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 2542591622     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X04043937     Document Type: Article

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