Municipal solid waste landfills in lower-and middle-income countries: Environmental impacts, challenges and sustainable management practices

S Mor, K Ravindra - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is collected, transported, and disposed of in an
unorganized and disordered manner in lower-and middle-income countries. Improper waste …

A review of immiscible fluids in the subsurface: Properties, models, characterization and remediation

JW Mercer, RM Cohen - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 1990 - Elsevier
In the past few years, as hazardous waste sites have been studied more often and in more
detail, immiscible fluids have been encountered in the subsurface with greater frequency …

Solid phase microextraction with thermal desorption using fused silica optical fibers

CL Arthur, J Pawliszyn - Analytical chemistry, 1990 - ACS Publications
Sir: Solid phase extraction (SPE) is an effective alternative to liquid-liquid extraction (1, 2).
SPE involves absorbing the analyte from the sample onto a modified solid support. The …

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) in soils and groundwater of a US metropolitan area: Migration and implications for human exposure

F Xiao, MF Simcik, TR Halbach, JS Gulliver - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) are emerging
anthropogenic compounds that have recently become the target of global concern due to …

Environmental impacts of solid waste landfilling

M El-Fadel, AN Findikakis, JO Leckie - Journal of environmental …, 1997 - Elsevier
Inevitable consequences of the practice of solid waste disposal in landfills are gas and
leachate generation due primarily to microbial decomposition, climatic conditions, refuse …

Groundwater contamination: Pump-and-treat remediation

DM Mackay, JA Cherry - Environmental Science & Technology, 1989 - ACS Publications
(CERCLA) and revised Resource Con-servation and RecoveryAct (RCRA) legislation in
1980 and 1984, respec-tively, detailed monitoring of ground-water at industrial and waste …

[图书][B] Remediation of petroleum contaminated soils: biological, physical, and chemical processes

E Riser-Roberts - 2020 - books.google.com
This book combines the results of current research with essential background material to
provide complete, in-depth coverage of every aspect of in situ and ex situ bioremediation, as …

Water flow and solute transport processes in the unsaturated zone

DR Nielsen, M Th. Van Genuchten… - Water resources …, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
This paper gives a review of our current conceptual understanding of the basic processes of
water flow and chemical transport in the untsaturated (vadose) zone and of various …

Dissolution of trapped nonaqueous phase liquids: Mass transfer characteristics

CT Miller, MM Poirier‐McNeil… - Water Resources …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Many groundwater contamination incidents begin with the release of an essentially
immiscible fluid into the subsurface environment. Once in the subsurface, an immiscible fluid …

A compositional simulator for modeling surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation, 1 formulation

M Delshad, GA Pope, K Sepehrnoori - Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 1996 - Elsevier
We describe a three-dimensional, multicomponent, multiphase compositional finite-
difference simulator for application to the analysis of contaminant transport and surfactant …