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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
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering
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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
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Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

AERMOD as a Gaussian dispersion model for planning tracer gas dispersion tests for landfill methane emission quantification
F. Matacchiera, C. Manes, R.P. Beaven, T.C. Rees-White, F. Boano, J. Mønster & C. Scheutz, 2019, Waste Management, 87, 924-936
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.007
Type: article
Landfill gas emission monitoring
Richard Beaven & Charlotte Scheutz, 2019, Waste Management, 87, 833-834
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.039
Type: letterEditorial
Validation and error assessment of the mobile tracer gas dispersion method for measurement of fugitive emissions from area sources
A. M. Fredenslund, T. C. Rees-White, R. P. Beaven, A. Delre, A. Finlayson, J. Helmore, G. Allen & C. Scheutz, 2019, Waste Management, 83, 68-78
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.10.036
Type: article
Doublet tracer tests to determine the contaminant flushing properties of a municipal solid waste landfill
Nicholas Woodman, Tristan Rees-White, Richard Beaven, Anne Stringfellow & John Barker, 2017, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 203, 38-50
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2017.05.008
Type: article
Evaluating landfill aftercare strategies: a life cycle assessment approach
David Turner, Richard Beaven & Nicholas Woodman, 2016, Waste Management, 1-33
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.12.005
Type: article