Use of gas push-pull tests for the measurement of methane oxidation in different landfill cover soils

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 995-1001

  Streese Kleeberg, Jan ^a   Rachor, Ingke ^b   Gebert, Julia ^b   Stegmann, Rainer ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EFFORTS; BIOLOGICAL OXIDATIONS; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS; GAS PUSH-PULL TESTS; GERMANY; IN-SITU; LANDFILL COVERS; METHANE OXIDATION; METHANE OXIDATION RATES; OXIDATION RATES; REACTIVE GAS;

ARGON; LAND FILL; METHANE; OXIDATION; REMEDIATION; SOILS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

GASES;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LANDFILL; METHANE; OXIDATION; SOIL COVER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERMANY; LAND USE; LANDFILL; OXIDATION KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79952698558     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.08.026     Document Type: Article

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