Steady-state design of vertical wells for liquids addition at bioreactor landfills

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2022-2029

  Jain, Pradeep ^a   Townsend, Timothy G ^b   Tolaymat, Thabet M ^c  

^a Innovative Waste Consulting Services LLC   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY RATIO; BIOREACTOR LANDFILL; DARCY'S EQUATIONS; DESIGN CHARTS; DESIGN INPUT; DIMENSIONLESS VARIABLES; INJECTION PRESSURES; INPUT VARIABLES; KEY INPUT; LIQUID VOLUME; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SPECIFIC SITES; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; STEADY-STATE DESIGN; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; VERTICAL FLOWS; VERTICAL WELL SYSTEMS; VERTICAL WELLS;

GRAPHIC METHODS; LIQUIDS; PLASMA THEORY; SOLID WASTES;

DESIGN;

BIOREACTOR; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR DESIGN; FLOW RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LANDFILL; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; STEADY STATE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 77957690155     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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