Landfill Base Liners: Assessment of Material Equivalency and Impact to Groundwater

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-44

  Kandris, Kyriakos ^a   Pantazidou, Marina ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clay liners; Composite liners; Geosynthetic clay liners; Landfill liner design; Landfills

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CLAY LINERS; COMPACTED CLAY LINER; COMPOSITE LINER; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; CRITICAL PARAMETER; DISCHARGE RATES; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS; INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; KEY PARAMETERS; LANDFILL LINER DESIGN; LEACHATE FLOWS; LINER DESIGN; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; RETARDATION FACTORS; TRANSPORT CALCULATION;

CONTAMINATION; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLAY LINER; COMPOSITE; GEOMEMBRANE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LANDFILL LINER; LEACHATE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

EID: 84155195216     PISSN: 09603182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-011-9447-4     Document Type: Article

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