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Research project

PLATFORM Grant

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]

Research outputs

Uncoupling of liquid and solid retention times in anaerobic digestion of catering wastes
M.A. Climenhaga & C.J. Banks, 2008, Water Science & Technology, 58(8), 1581-1587
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.497
Type: article
Potential clogging of gravel and tyre drainage layers by methanogenic leachates
A.P. Hudson, R.P. Beaven, K. Knox, W. Powrie & D.J. Smallman, 2007
Type: conference
Operation and performance of horizontal wells for leachate control in a waste landfill
R.P. Beaven, S.E. Cox & W. Powrie, 2007, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133(8), 1040-1047
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2007)133:8(1040)
Type: article
Hydraulic conductivity of whole and shredded tyres for use in landfill drainage systems
A.P. Hudson, R.P. Beaven, W. Powrie & D. Parkes, 2007, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management, 160(2), 63-70
DOI: 10.1680/warm.2007.160.2.63
Type: article
Briefing: Defra’s new technologies demonstrator programme
D. Brooks & W. Powrie, 2007, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management, 160(1), 5-10
DOI: 10.1680/warm.2007.160.1.5
Type: article