Review of state of the art methods for measuring water in landfills

Waste Management

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 729-745

  Imhoff, Paul T ^a   Reinhart, Debra R ^b   Englund, Marja ^c   Guérin, Roger ^d   Gawande, Nitin ^b   Han, Byunghyun ^a   Jonnalagadda, Sreeram ^e   Townsend, Timothy G ^e   Yazdani, Ramin ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Fortum Oil and Gas Oy   (Finland)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences Department   (United States)

^f and Public Works Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; INFILTRATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SENSORS; WATER CONTENT;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; PARTITIONING GAS TRACER TECHNIQUE (PGTT); TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR);

LAND FILL;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; INFILTRATION; LAND FILL; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SENSORS; WATER CONTENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FIBER OPTICS; GRAVIMETRY; INFILTRATION; LANDFILL; NEUTRON PROBE; SENSOR; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTENT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FIBER OPTICS; GRAVIMETRY; IMPEDANCE; LANDFILL; MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SENSOR; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 33947599721     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2006.03.024     Document Type: Article

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