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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

A multi-component two-phase flow algorithm for use in landfill processes modelling
J.K. White,
D. Nayagum,
& R.P. Beaven
, 2014 , Waste Management , 34 (9) , 1644--1656
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.05.005
Type: article
Clogging of landfill tyre and aggregate drainage layers by methanogenic leachate and implications for practice
R.P. Beaven,
A.P. Hudson,
K. Knox,
W. Powrie,
& J.P. Robinson
, 2013 , Waste Management , 33 (2) , 431--444
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.10.021
Type: article
Developments to a landfill processes model following its application to two landfill modelling challenges
J.K. White,
& R.P. Beaven
, 2013 , Waste Management , 33 (10) , 1969--1981
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.12.006
Type: article
Behavior of an MBT waste in monotonic triaxial shear tests
A.R. Bhandari,
& W. Powrie
, 2013 , Waste Management , 33 (4) , 881--891
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.11.009
Type: article
Enhanced biodegradation at the Landgraaf bioreactor test-cell
H. Oonk,
A. van Zomeren,
T.C. Rees-White,
R.P. Beaven,
N. Hoekstra,
L. Luning,
M. Hannen,
H. Hermkes,
& H. Woelders
, 2013 , Waste Management , 33 (10) , 2048--2060
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.03.003
Type: article