Gas flow to a vertical gas extraction well in deformable MSW landfills

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 168, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 1404-1416

  Yu, Li ^a   Batlle, Francisco ^a   Carrera, Jesús ^b   Lloret, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analytical method; Extraction well; Gas flow; Laplace transform; Municipal solid waste landfill

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EXCESS GAS PRESSURE; EXTRACTION WELL; EXTRACTION WELLS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GAS COMPONENT; GAS CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAS EXTRACTIONS; GAS FLOW; GAS FLOW PATTERNS; GAS FLOWS; GAS FLUX; GAS GENERATION; GAS PRESSURES; GAS STORAGE; LANDFILL SETTLEMENT; MECHANICAL COMPRESSION; MSW LANDFILLS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PARAMETRIC STUDY; QUASI-STEADY SOLUTIONS; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; TIME-DEPENDENT COMPRESSION; VACUUM PRESSURE;

AERODYNAMICS; DEFORMATION; DISSOLUTION; FLOW OF GASES; FLOW PATTERNS; LAND FILL; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

GASES;

ORGANIC MATTER;

DEGRADATION; DESIGN; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTION METHOD; GAS FLOW; GAS STORAGE; GAS WELL; LANDFILL; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC MATTER; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPRESSION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; FLOW KINETICS; GAS FLOW; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROCESS MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VACUUM; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

GASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 67649779827     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.03.045     Document Type: Article

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