Research project

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

Lead researchers:

Professor William Powrie
Other researchers:

Dr Richard Beaven
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

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow

Connect with Richard

Email: R.P.Beaven@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Catchment source contributions to the sediment-bound organic matter degrading salmonid spawning gravels in a lowland river, southern England

A.L. Collins, L.J. Williams, Y.S. Zhang, M. Marius, J.A.J. Dungait, D.J. Smallman, E.R. Dixon, A. Stringfellow, D.A. Sear, J.I. Jones & P.S. Naden, 2013, Science of the Total Environment, 456-457, 181-195

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.093

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

Investigations into the landfill behaviour of pretreated wastes

A.A. Siddiqui, D.J. Richards & W. Powrie, 2012, Waste Management, 32(7), 1420-1426