A multi-phase biogeochemical model for mitigating earthquake-induced liquefaction via microbially induced desaturation and calcium carbonate precipitation

A next-generation biogeochemical model was developed to explore the impact of the native water source on microbially induced desaturation and precipitation (MIDP) via denitrification. MIDP is a non-disruptive, nature-based ground improvement technique that offers the promise of cost-effective mitigation of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction...

Optimizing landfill aeration strategy with a 3-D multiphase model

In order to reduce the environmental and financial burden for future generations, approaches are needed to shorten aftercare of landfills. Aeration of the waste-body is a promising approach, however, the poor understanding of transport of gas and water through a waste-body makes it difficult to design an effective aeration strategy. The aim of...

Theoretical analysis of municipal solid waste treatment by leachate recirculation under anaerobic and aerobic conditions

Long-term emissions of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills are a burden for future generations because of the required long-term aftercare. To shorten aftercare, treatment methods have to be developed that reduce long-term emissions. A treatment method that reduces emissions at a lysimeter scale is re-circulation of leachate. However, its...

Characterizing Dominant Processes in Landfills to Quantify the Emission Potential

Our ever-growing amount of solid waste puts a burden on future generations and the environment due to emissions of contaminants such as CO2, CH4, Cl- and heavy-metals for hundreds of years. It is therefore essential that landfill after-care methods are developed that reduce the emission potential of landfills to acceptable levels within the time...

A toolbox to find the best mechanistic model to predict the behavior of environmental systems

Reliable prediction of the long-term behavior of environmental systems such as Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills is challenging. While many driving forces influence this behavior, characterization of them is limited by measurement techniques. Therefore, a model structure for reliable prediction needs to optimally combine all measured...

Building a mechanistic biogeochemical reaction network for upscaling: Characterization of mass transport limitation between regions of hydrolysis and methanogenesis

In this study, we aim to validate the reaction network with an idealized experiment. We want to show that 1) rate controlling parameters are identifiable from the measured data by inverse modeling, and 2) that this network is able to predict the measured emissions in the experiment given the initial conditions. In the experiment, cabbage is used...

A generic transport-reactive model for simulating microbially influenced mineral precipitation in porous medium

The spatial and temporal distribution of precipitated minerals is one of the key factors governing various processes in the sub-surface environment, including microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) (Huang, 2002), bio-cementation (van Paassen et al., 2010) and sediment diagenesis (Paraska et al., 2014). The mineral precipitation not only affects...

Investigating the impact of process parameters on aeration of MSW via a mechanistic biogeochemical reaction model

The aim of our study is to investigate previously mentioned aspects with scenario analyses via a mechanistic biogeochemical reaction network model that contains the emission controlling reactions. In order to find such a network, we apply the gray modeling toolbox developed by van Turnhout et al. (2015) on a measured dataset used in the study of...

Water balance modeling for estimation of residence time of water in a full-scale landfill using a data-assimilation approach

In order to develop novel approaches for reducing the after-care of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) sanitary landfills methods are required with which we can quantify the emission potential present in waste bodies. Currently full-scale experiments are being prepared at three Dutch landfills based on enhanced infiltration by irrigation and leachate...

Gray box modelling of MSW biodegradation; Revealing its dominant (bio)chemical mechanism

Gray box modeling of MSW degradation: Revealing its dominant (bio)chemical mechanism

In this paper we present an approach to describe organic degradation within immobile water regions of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills which is best described by the term “gray box” model. We use a simplified set of dominant (bio)chemical and physical reactions and realistic environmental conditions. All equations, relationships and...

Gray box modeling of MSW degradation: Revealing its dominant (bio)chemical mechanism

Quantification of (bio)geochemical heterogeneous activity in full-scale landfills (abstract)

The main focus of this paper is the assessment of landfill leachate/gas emissions and longterm prediction of these emissions. Due to variation in environmental conditions, like rainfall events, leachate concentrations are very dynamic on a short-time scale. The measured concentrations in the leachate oscillate between maximum and minimum...

Is it possible to quantify emission potential from high resolution monitoring of leachate dynamics?

Modern sanitary landfills are one the most important final storage solutions for safely storing waste in modern society. Many countries around the world have implemented regulations in order to protect the environment from adverse emissions from the landfills. Generally these regulations require the installation of protective barriers which...

Integrated modeling and up-scaling of landfill processes and heterogeneity using stochastic approach

Municipal solid waste landfills are a very complex and heterogeneous systems. The waste in a landfill body is a heterogeneous mixture of a wide range of materials containing high levels of organic matter, high amounts of salts and a wide range of different organic and inorganic substances, such as heavy metals and organic solvents. A range of...

Grey box modeling of municipal solid waste

A homogeneous bioreactor model reproducing waste column data: Considering a minimum set of dominant reactions

Landfill emission quantification: Improvement in measurement and modelling approaches to asses (long-term) emissions and stabilization

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