Comprehensive overview of numerical modeling of coupled landfill processes

SF Lu, SJ Feng - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Landfilling is the primary method used for municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal. To design,
optimize, and manage landfills with a life span of several decades, a deeper understanding …

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 …

Coupled bio-hydro-thermo-mechanical interactions of landfilled MSW based on a multi-phase, multi-component numerical model

SF Lu, SJ Feng - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
A clear understanding of long-term bio-hydro-thermo-mechanical (BHTM) behaviors of
landfilled Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is essential to better design and manage landfills …

Modeling of leachate generation from MSW landfills by a 2-dimensional 2-domain approach

J Fellner, PH Brunner - Waste Management, 2010 - Elsevier
The flow of water through Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills is highly non-uniform and
dominated by preferential pathways. Thus, concepts to simulate landfill behavior require that …

Analysis of solid-liquid-gas interactions in landfilled municipal solid waste by a bio-hydro-mechanical coupled model

YM Chen, XB Xu, LT Zhan - Science China Technological Sciences, 2012 - Springer
Based on first-order kinetics of hydrolysis process, biodegradation of municipal solid waste
(MSW) is assumed to obey a first-order decay equation which can take the direct effect of …

Analysis of landfill design variables based on scientific computing

M Cuartas, A López, F Pérez, A Lobo - Waste Management, 2018 - Elsevier
The optimal design of waste landfills is a complex, still unsolved issue. Each design variable
influences the rest and it is difficult to quantify their interactions. Recent advances in …

Modeling of perched leachate zone formation in municipal solid waste landfills

G Di Bella, D Di Trapani, G Mannina, G Viviani - Waste management, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper presents a 1D mathematical model for the simulation of the percolation fluxes
throughout a landfill for municipal solid waste (MSW). Specifically, the model was based on …

Simulation of municipal solid waste reactors using Moduelo

A Lobo, A Lopez, N Cobo… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The biodegradation and settlement of two consolidating municipal solid waste (MSW)
anaerobic reactors operated at Southampton University, UK, were modelled with the …

Modelación de la producción de metano en el relleno sanitario Parque Ambiental Palangana (Santa Marta)

ME Armenta-Rivas, LD Sierra-Camargo… - Ingeniería …, 2017 - scielo.org.mx
El metano generado en rellenos sanitarios se puede presentar como un problema
ambiental en la gestión de los residuos sólidos, pero también se considera como un …

Dynamical modeling and optimal control of landfills

A Rapaport, T Bayen, M Sebbah… - … Models and Methods …, 2016 - World Scientific
We propose a simple model of landfill and study a minimal time control problem where the
re-circulation leachate is the manipulated variable. We propose a scheme to construct the …