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Enhanced stabilisation of municipal solid waste in bioreactor landfills UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

By Roberto Valencia Vazquez Copyright 2009
158 Pages 40 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

158 Pages
by CRC Press

158 Pages
by CRC Press

Municipal solid waste entombed in landfills will produce pollution in the form of landfill gas and leachate when the barriers fail in the long term. Bioreactor landfills are an alternative solution to avoid such negative impacts and to achieve a more stable residue, the so-called Final Storage Quality (FSQ) of residues. However, until now the main technical problem faced by landfill operators in... Read more

Contents:

Summary

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Achieving "Final Storage Quality" of MSW in Pilot Scale Bioreactor Landfills

3. Alternative Treatment for Septic Tank Sludge: Co-disposal with MSW in Bioreactor Landfill Simulators

4. The Effect of Hydraulic Conditions on Waste Stabilisation in Bioreactor Landfill Simulators

5. Ammonium Release and Anammox as an Option for its Removal in Bioreactor Landfill Simulators

6. Mathematical Simulation of Carbon and Nitrogen Transformations in Bioreactor Simulators

7. Conclusions and Outlook

Biography

Roberto Valencia Vazquez (1974)graduated inCivil Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Durango, Mexico (1998). Afer graduation, he worked for a private construction company developing residential suburbs. In October 1999, he joined the MSc program at UNESCI-IHE in Delft where he obtained his MSc degree in Environmental Science and Technology, followed by the PhD program at UNESCO-IHE Delft.