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Sciences and strategies for the long term management and remediation of landfills

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance.
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels).
  • Groundwater and groundwater control.
Other researchers

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow

Research outputs

AERMOD as a Gaussian dispersion model for planning tracer gas dispersion tests for landfill methane emission quantification
F. Matacchiera,
C. Manes,
R.P. Beaven,
T.C. Rees-White,
F. Boano,
J. Mønster,
& C. Scheutz
, 2019 , Waste Management , 87 , 924--936
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.007
Type: article
Validation and error assessment of the mobile tracer gas dispersion method for measurement of fugitive emissions from area sources
A. M. Fredenslund,
T. C. Rees-White,
R. P. Beaven,
A. Delre,
A. Finlayson,
J. Helmore,
G. Allen,
& C. Scheutz
, 2019 , Waste Management , 83 , 68--78
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.10.036
Type: article
Multiple-tracer tests for contaminant transport process identification in saturated municipal solid waste
N.D. Woodman,
T.C. Rees-White,
A. Stringfellow,
R.P. Beaven,
& A.P. Hudson
, 2015 , Waste Management , 38 , 250--262
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.12.012
Type: article
Intrinsic and relative permeabilities of shredded municipal solid wastes from the Qizishan landfill, China
X.B. Xu,
T.L.T. Zhan,
Y.M. Chen,
& R.P. Beaven
, 2014 , Canadian Geotechnical Journal , 51 (11) , 1243--1252
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2013-0306
Type: article
Investigating the effect of compression on solute transport through degrading municipal solid waste
N. Woodman,
T. Rees-White,
A. Stringfellow,
R.P. Beaven,
& A.P. Hudson
, 2014 , Waste Management , 34 (11) , 2196--2208
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.06.022
Type: article