A review on settlement models of municipal solid waste landfills

Y Ren, Z Zhang, M Huang - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, landfill is the most common, economical, and convenient method for municipal
solid waste (MSW) disposal in countries around the world. MSW has a complex composition …

Modeling coupled processes in municipal solid waste landfills: An overview with key engineering challenges

KR Reddy, G Kumar, RK Giri - International Journal of Geosynthetics and …, 2017 - Springer
Disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) in engineered landfills is one of the most widely
used waste management practices in the USA and worldwide. During its design life …

Masses and size distributions of mechanically fragmented microplastics from LDPE and EPS under simulated landfill conditions

X Lu, H He, Y Wang, Y Guo, X Fei - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Landfills contain significant amounts of plastic waste (PW) and microplastics (MPs).
However, the contributions of various PW fragmentation processes to the quality and …

Geotechnical properties of fresh municipal solid wastes with different compositions under leachate exposure

Y Xie, J Xue, CT Gnanendran, K Xie - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the geotechnical properties of a type of synthetic municipal solid
waste (MSW). The tests were conducted on five groups of synthetic MSW compositions …

Physical, geotechnical and biochemical behaviours of municipal solid waste in field and laboratory bioreactors

Y Xie, J Xue, CT Gnanendran, K Xie - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of degrees of compaction (initial dry unit weights),
recirculation liquid and rate, and environmental temperature on the long-term physical …

Quantification of parameters influencing methane generation due to biodegradation of municipal solid waste in landfills and laboratory experiments

X Fei, D Zekkos, L Raskin - Waste management, 2016 - Elsevier
The energy conversion potential of municipal solid waste (MSW) disposed of in landfills
remains largely untapped because of the slow and variable rate of biogas generation …

Global void ratio of municipal solid waste for compression indices estimation

X Pi, X Fei, Y Wang, X Sun, Y Guo - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Compressibility is one of the important engineering properties of municipal solid waste
(MSW) affecting the stability and functionality of a landfill. Although the correlations between …

Numerical modelling of settlement of municipal solid waste in landfills coupled with effects of biodegradation

Y Xie, J Xue, A Deane - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a new settlement model to predict the long-term
settlement of municipal solid wastes (MSWs). The total settlement of the MSWs results from …

Coupled experimental assessment of physico-biochemical characteristics of municipal solid waste undergoing enhanced biodegradation

X Fei, D Zekkos - Géotechnique, 2018 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Seven municipal solid waste (MSW) specimens with variable initial waste compositions
were biodegraded in large (d= 300 mm, h= 600 mm) laboratory landfill simulators under …

Characterization of compression behaviors of high food waste content (HFWC) MSW and no food waste content (NFWC) MSW in China

H Xu, J Wang, L Zhan, Z Zhang, X Xu, Y Chen, K Yao - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, three sets of laboratory tests were conducted on high-food-waste-content
(HFWC-), no-food-waste-content (NFWC-) and decomposed (D-) MSWs to characterize their …