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Research project

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
Connect with William

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Richard

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Accelerated flushing of contaminants from MSW landfill at the field scale using a fill-and-draw method
Tristan Rees-White, Richard Beaven & John Barker, 2024, Waste Management, 186, 176-187
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2024.05.040
Type: article
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
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
Multiple-tracer tests for contaminant transport process identification in saturated municipal solid waste
N.D. Woodman, T.C. Rees-White, A. Stringfellow, R.P. Beaven & A.P. Hudson, 2015, Waste Management, 38, 250-262
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.12.012
Type: article
Investigating the effect of compression on solute transport through degrading municipal solid waste
N. Woodman, T. Rees-White, A. Stringfellow, R.P. Beaven & A.P. Hudson, 2014, Waste Management, 34(11), 2196-2208
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.06.022
Type: article