New analytical solutions are presented for the assessment of the impact of contaminant transport through landfill liners on groundwater quality under steady-state conditions. These solutions can be applied to evaluate the equivalency and the effectiveness of landfill liners, even those that include a geomembrane, taking into account the presence of a natural attenuation layer interposed between the engineered barrier and the underlying aquifer. The impact of a contaminant on groundwater quality is quantified through the determination of the contaminant concentration along the horizontal direction of the groundwater flow for the case of thin aquifers that are only a few meters thick. For the case of thick aquifers, both a closed-form analytical solution and a step-by-step numerical solution are provided for the calculation of the variations in the contaminant concentration in horizontal and vertical directions within the aquifer.
Steady-state analysis of pollutant transport to assess landfill liner performance / Dominijanni, A.; Manassero, M.. - In: ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS. - ISSN 2051-803X. - STAMPA. - (In corso di stampa), pp. 1-15.
Titolo: | Steady-state analysis of pollutant transport to assess landfill liner performance |
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Data di pubblicazione: | Being printed |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jenge.19.00051 |
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