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Material selection for landfill leachate piping by using a grey target decision-making approach

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Landfill leachate, due to its quantity and inherent risk, is generally collected and transported by piping system for advanced treatment. During the piping, the pipe materials may react with leachate, resulting in corrosion and scaling. In order to reduce possible failures and mitigate the associated consequences, this study provides an indicator system for material selection to aid the pipe system design. The material functional, economic, and environmental attributes are incorporated into the indicator system, to perform a precise selection of commercial drainage pipe materials, thus improving empirically oriented selection. Four common drainage pipe materials including high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), galvanized steel, and seamless steel are taken as the material alternatives for the selection. Based upon their experimental data, a grey target decision-making framework is employed to perform the priority ranking of the materials. The results indicate that HDPE has the best performance, followed by PVC, galvanized steel, and seamless steel. This study discusses the validity of the selection results and the applicability of the proposed method, to provide insight into  leachate piping system design.

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This study is sponsored by the National Key Plan for Research and Development of China (No. 2019YFC1905600), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41571520 and 51608499), Sichuan Young Talent Scientific Funding (No. 2019JDJQ0020), Sichuan Provincial Key Technology Support (Nos. 2019JDTD0024 and 2019ZHCG0048), and Sichuan Province Circular Economy Research Centre Fund (No. XHJJ-1802).

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  1. Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 611756, China

    Rui Zhao, Min Li & Lingyun Jing

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu, 610039, China

    Sude Ma

  3. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    Tianxue Yang

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Zhao, R., Li, M., Ma, S. et al. Material selection for landfill leachate piping by using a grey target decision-making approach. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 494–502 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10385-z

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