A water budget model for operating landfills: An application in Greece

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 717-725

  Komilis, Dimitrios ^a   Athiniotou, Angeliki ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b DEDAPAL SA ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydraulic modelling; landfill hydrology; landfill leachate; leachate generation; water budget model

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; HYDRAULIC MODELS;

EMPIRICAL MODEL; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOUR; LANDFILL LEACHATES; LEACHATE GENERATION; PRECIPITATION RATES; WASTE DECOMPOSITIONS; WATER BUDGET MODEL; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY;

LEACHATE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION; EVAPORATION; GEOMETRY; LANDFILL; LANDFILL LEACHATE; LEACHING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; MONTHLY WATER BUDGET MODEL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANALYSIS; GREECE; SOLID WASTE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY;

SOLID WASTE; WATER;

GREECE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WATER;

EID: 84906772199     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14545505     Document Type: Article

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