Measuring seasonal variations of moisture in a landfill with the partitioning gas tracer test

Waste Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 344-355

  Han, Byunghyun ^a   Jafarpour, Behnam ^a,c   Gallagher, Victoria N ^a   Imhoff, Paul T ^a   Chiu, Pei C ^a   Fluman, Daniel A ^b  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b Delaware Solid Waste Authority   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; LAND FILL; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; SORPTION;

EXCAVATED REFUSE; GRAVIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; PILOT-SCALE PARTITIONING GAS TRACER TESTS (PGTTS);

SOLID WASTES;

WATER;

EXCAVATION; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; LAND FILL; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; SOLID WASTES; SORPTION;

LANDFILL; MOISTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ACCURACY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAVIMETRY; LABORATORY TEST; LANDFILL; MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLVATION; WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ADSORPTION; GASES; POROSITY; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; WATER;

EID: 32344434684     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2005.11.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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