Research project

Platform Grants

Lead researchers:

Professor William Powrie
Other researchers:

Professor David Richards,

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering

Connect with David

Email: djr@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Research interests

Controlled anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation of municipal and industrial solid wastes
Concepts for an integrated farming system for non competitive food and fuel production
Energy production from digestion of crops and agricultural wastes

Connect with Charles

Email: C.J.Banks@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Single-well injection-withdrawal tests as a contaminant transport characterisation tool for landfilled waste

Tristan Rees-White, Nicholas Woodman, R.P. Beaven, John Barker & James Rollinson, 2021, Waste Management, 128, 142-153

DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.04.047

Type: article

Installation and performance of horizontal wells for dewatering at municipal solid waste landfills in China

Jie Hu, Han Ke, Liang Tong Zhan, Zu Yu Chen, Ji Wu Lan, William Powrie & Yun Min Chen, 2020, Waste Management, 103, 159-168

DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.12.035

Type: article

Experimental study of the intrinsic permeability of municipal solid waste

Xiao Bing Xu, William Powrie, Wen Jie Zhang, David Stuart Holmes, Hui Xu & Richard Beaven, 2020, Waste Management, 102, 304-311

DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.10.039

Type: article

Mechanisms of settlement in municipal solid waste landfills

William Powrie, xiao bing Xu, David Richards, Liang tong Zhan & yun-min chen, 2019, Journal of Zhejiang University - Science A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 20, 927–947

DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A1900315

Type: article

A near-field Gaussian plume inversion flux quantification method, applied to unmanned aerial vehicle sampling

Adil Shah, Grant Allen, Joseph R. Pitt, Hugo Ricketts, Paul. I Williams, Jonathan Hellmore, Andrew Finlayson, Rod Robinson, Khristopher Kabbabe, Peter Hollingsworth, Tristan Rees-White, Richard Beaven, Charlotte Scheutz & Mark Bourn, 2019, Atmosphere, 10(7)

DOI: 10.3390/atmos10070396

Type: article