The effects of daily cover soils on shear strength of municipal solid waste in bioreactor landfills

Waste Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1568-1576

  Hossain, MD Sahadat ^a   Haque, Mohamed A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Bryant Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED DECOMPOSITIONS; BIOREACTOR LANDFILLS; BROKEN DOWNS; COVER SOILS; FRICTION ANGLES; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LABORATORY-SCALE; LEACHATE; MATRIX STRUCTURES; METHANE YIELDS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES; ORGANIC CONTENTS; RE CIRCULATIONS; REINFORCING EFFECTS; SANDY SOILS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRENGTH BEHAVIORS; STRENGTH PROPERTIES; TEST RESULTS; TRIAXIAL TESTS; WASTE STABILIZATIONS;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; FRICTION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; METHANE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; SOLID WASTES; TRIBOLOGY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

SHEAR STRENGTH;

BIOREACTOR; DECOMPOSITION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SANDY SOIL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL COVER;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 61549124390     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2008.12.017     Document Type: Article

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