Air permeability of waste in a municipal solid waste landfill

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1565-1573

  Jain, Pradeep ^a,b   Powell, Jon ^a   Townsend, Timothy G ^a   Reinhart, Debra R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Innovative Waste Consulting Services LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air injection; Landfills; Municipal wastes; Permeability; Solid wastes

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; ANISOTROPY; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEEP WELL DISPOSAL; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AIR INJECTION TEST; LEACHATE RECIRCULATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES (MSW);

SOLID WASTES;

AIR SPARGING; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 27644434293     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2005)131:11(1565)     Document Type: Article

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