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Modeling Coupled Processes in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: An Overview with Key Engineering Challenges

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Disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) in engineered landfills is one of the most widely used waste management practices in the USA and worldwide. During its design life, landfilled MSW undergoes various complex mechanisms controlled by physical (hydraulic and mechanical), chemical, thermal, and biological processes and their interrelated behaviors. A thorough understanding of these coupled MSW interactions is critical in designing a stable, effective and well-operational landfill. However, to date, the current practices associated with mathematical modeling as well as long-term monitoring of landfill performance(s) are mostly empirical and limited to site-specific conditions. Moreover, they fail to substantially quantify the changes in the geotechnical properties of MSW that result from coupled processes, especially the highly uncertain biological processes that result in MSW degradation in landfills. Furthermore, the spatially and temporally varied waste composition, heterogeneous and anisotropic nature of field MSW together with leachate and landfill gas production due to biodegradation results in atypical differential MSW settlement and, therefore, can adversely impact the long-term performance of landfills. Over the years, numerous experimental studies, field studies and mathematical modeling studies that focus on these landfill processes have been performed to optimize MSW landfill performance. In this study, a critical review of the previous research efforts on coupled processes is provided to help landfill engineers understand, design and operate MSW landfills safely and efficiently. Moreover, key research issues and challenges related to numerical modeling of landfilled MSW undergoing coupled processes are presented.

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This project is funded by the US National Science Foundation (CMMI #1537514), which is gratefully acknowledged. The authors are grateful to the reviewers for their thoughtful comments and suggestions.

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    Krishna R. Reddy, Girish Kumar & Rajiv K. Giri

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Reddy, K.R., Kumar, G. & Giri, R.K. Modeling Coupled Processes in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: An Overview with Key Engineering Challenges. Int. J. of Geosynth. and Ground Eng. 3, 6 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40891-016-0082-2

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