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Sustainable Practices for Landfill Design and Operation pp 313–343Cite as

Landfill Air Addition

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Abstract

Although less well-developed compared to anaerobic sustainable landfilling technologies, the addition of air as an extensive or just a portion of sustainable landfilling operations provides a series of distinct potential benefits compared to anaerobic systems. The fundamental system configuration and design approaches for aerobic systems are provided, along with operation, monitoring, and control techniques. Given the unique nature and relatively limited experience with full-scale aerobic systems (compared to anaerobic), a special series of case studies from Asia, Europe, and North America are provided to provide examples of how aerobic technologies can be incorporated into sustainable landfilling operations.

Keywords

  • Landfill
  • Air addition
  • Aerobic
  • Temperature
  • Fire
  • Stabilization

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  1. Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Timothy G. Townsend

  2. Innovative Waste Consulting Services, LLC, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Jon Powell & Pradeep Jain

  3. Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China

    Qiyong Xu

  4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Thabet Tolaymat

  5. Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Debra Reinhart

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Townsend, T.G., Powell, J., Jain, P., Xu, Q., Tolaymat, T., Reinhart, D. (2015). Landfill Air Addition. In: Sustainable Practices for Landfill Design and Operation. Waste Management Principles and Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2662-6_14

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