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Research project

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

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: [email protected]

Other researchers

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Richard

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

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
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.03.016
Type: article
A ‘fill and draw’ tracer test at the Landgraaf landfill pilot November 2010 to March 2011
T. Rees-White, R. Beaven, N. Woodman & J. Barker, 2012
Type: report
Leachate recirculation in a landfill: some insights obtained from the development of a simple 1-D model
J.K. White, R.P. Beaven, W. Powrie & K. Knox, 2011, Waste Management, 31(6), 1210-1221
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.10.022
Type: article