Mass construction and operation of hazardous waste landfill infrastructure has greatly improved China's waste management and environmental safety. However, the deterioration of engineering materials and the failure of landfill may lead to the release of untreated leachate rich in persistent toxic pollutants to the soil and shallow groundwater. Accordingly, we develop the framework and process model to predict landfill life by coupling the landfill hydrological performance model and material degradation model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to analyze the effects of electrical resistivity in heavy metal contaminated sites, we established the resistivity model of typical contaminated sites and simulate the DC resistivity method with Wenner arrays using the finite element method. The simulation results showed that the electrical method was influenced by the contamination concentration and the location of pollution. The more serious the degree of pollution was, the more obvious the low resistivity anomaly, thus the easier the identification of the contaminated area; otherwise, if there was light pollution, Wenner array could not get obvious low resistivity anomalies, so it would be hard to judge the contaminated area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe resistivity, complex resistivity and complex permittivity of the chrome-contaminated soil were studied. Under the different pollution concentration and water content in the soil samples conditions, the relations between the resistivity, complex resistivity and complex permittivity of the chrome-contaminated soil and water content and the concentration of pollution were analyzed. When adding chrome pollution with different concentrations and water content, the experimental results show that the resistivity and complex resistivity of all the soil samples decreased with the pollution concentration and water content increased; but the phase of complex resistivity, which reflects the soil's capacitance, decreased below the 20 kHz and increase above the 20 kHz frequency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn equivalent circuit model is put forward through analysis of the experiment data under the conditions of applying 400V, 350V and 300V DC supply power to a small-scale simulated landfill. Due to the fact that the existence of the HDPE geomembrane liner endows the model with commutating character, the electrolytic capacity increases as the area of geomembrane liner and the supplying electric voltage increase. The contact electric resistance of the power supply electrode is in direct proportion to earth electric resistance rate, and in relation to the diameter of the electrode and the depth of the earth.
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