Geosynthetics in barriers for hydrocarbon remediation in Antarctica

10th International Conference on Geosynthetics, ICG 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  McWatters, R S ^a   Wilkins, D ^a   Spedding, T ^a   Hince, G ^a   Snape, I ^a   Rowe, R K ^b   Jones, D ^b   Bouazza, A ^c   Gates, W P ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biopiles; Cold regions engineering; GCL; Geomembranes; Hydrocarbon contaminated soil

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; GEOMEMBRANES; GEOTEXTILES; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLLUTION; REMEDIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SUN;

BIOPILES; COLD REGIONS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; GCL; GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(HDPE); HYDROCARBON REMEDIATIONS; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS;

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 85067772039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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