Preferential flow in municipal solid waste and implications for long-term leachate quality: Valuation of laboratory-scale experiments

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 367-380

  Rosqvist, Hakan N ^a,b   Dollar, H L ^a   Fourie, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Australian Centre for Geomechanics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chloride washout curve; Landfill; Leachate; Preferential flow; Solute transport modelling; Test; Tracer; Wmr 478 9

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SOLID WASTES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CHLORIDE WASHOUT CURVE; FLOW RATES; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODELLING;

LAND FILL;

CHLORIDE; WATER;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; LAND FILL; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SOLID WASTES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; LANDFILL; LEACHING; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOLID WASTE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; LABORATORY; LANDFILL; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; SOLUTE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 33749436258     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X05056995     Document Type: Article

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