Steady-state analysis of pollutant transport to assess landfill liner performance
- 1 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Thomas Telford Ltd. in Environmental Geotechnics
- Vol. 8 (7), 480-494
- https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.19.00051
Abstract
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.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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