Unsaturated flow parameters of municipal solid waste

SJ Feng, QT Zheng, HX Chen - Waste Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Leachate pollution/recirculation and landfill gas emission are the major environmental
concerns in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. A good understanding and prediction of …

A Critical Appraisal of Leachate Recirculation Systems in Bioreactor Landfills

LS Avinash, A Mishra, VB Kami… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Leachate supplementation through liquid injection is applied widely in bioreactor landfills to
increase moisture content within municipal solid waste (MSW) to facilitate waste …

Experimental investigation of water retention curves of municipal solid wastes with different paper contents, dry unit weights and degrees of biodegradation

Y Xie, J Xue - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the drying and wetting water retention curves (WRCs) of municipal
solid wastes (MSWs) with different paper contents, dry unit weights and degrees of …

Evolution of unsaturated hydraulic properties of municipal solid waste with landfill depth and age

H Wu, H Wang, Y Zhao, T Chen, W Lu - Waste Management, 2012 - Elsevier
Successful modeling of liquid and air flow and hence designing of liquid and air addition
systems in the landfills are constrained by the lack of key parameters of unsaturated …

Intrinsic and relative permeabilities of shredded municipal solid wastes from the Qizishan landfill, China

XB Xu, TLT Zhan, YM Chen… - Canadian geotechnical …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Testing specimens for laboratory analysis were created from borehole samples of municipal
solid waste (MSW) drilled from different depths at the Qizishan landfill, China. Laboratory …

Effect of changing unit weight and decomposition on unsaturated hydraulics of municipal solid waste in bioreactor landfills

RJ Breitmeyer, CH Benson, TB Edil - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
The effects of compression and decomposition on the water retention curve (WRC) and
unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (K θ) of municipal solid waste (MSW) were evaluated in …

Fully coupled hydromechanical study of tunnel excavation considering leachate leakage from a high water-level landfill

Y Zhao, S Feng, X Zhang, Q Zheng, B Cao - Computers and Geotechnics, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Jigongshan Mountain Tunnel was constructed beneath a high water-level
landfill in Shenzhen, China. Previous studies could not fully capture the hydraulic …

Two-phase modeling of leachate recirculation using vertical wells in bioreactor landfills

KR Reddy, HS Kulkarni, MV Khire - Journal of Hazardous, Toxic …, 2013 - ascelibrary.org
Leachate recirculation or liquid injection is an established practice for operating landfills as
bioreactors to enhance the biodegradation of municipal solid waste (MSW). Among other …

Measurement of unsaturated hydraulic properties of municipal solid waste

RJ Breitmeyer, CH Benson - Geo-frontiers 2011: Advances in …, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
Constitutive models developed for describing the water retention curve (WRC) and
unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (Kθ) of soil are parameterized for MSW. Samples of …

Effects of compression and decomposition on saturated hydraulic conductivity of municipal solid waste in bioreactor landfills

RJ Breitmeyer, CH Benson, TB Edil - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Laboratory and field-scale tests were conducted to determine the saturated hydraulic
conductivity (K s) of fresh and degraded municipal solid waste (MSW) at multiple dry unit …