Deer Track Bioreactor Experiment: Field-Scale Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Bioreactor Performance

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 658-670

  Bareither, Christopher A ^a   Breitmeyer, Ronald J ^b   Benson, Craig H ^a   Barlaz, Morton A ^c   Edil, Tuncer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioreactor; Decomposition; Landfills; Leachate; Settlement; Solid waste

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RATE; BIOCHEMICAL METHANE POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; DARCY FLUX; DRY UNIT WEIGHT; FIELD CAPACITY; FIELD SCALE; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LEACHATES; SETTLEMENT; TIME-DEPENDENT COMPRESSION;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; METHANE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SOLID WASTES;

EFFLUENTS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMPRESSION; DRAINAGE; EFFLUENT; LEACHATE; LYSIMETER; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PH;

CERVIDAE;

EID: 84862121678     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000636     Document Type: Article

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