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Although there are well-established methods for economic (cost) estimation of any process, the estimation of the environmental and the social effects is relatively less understood and rarely incorporated in engineering calculations. In this paper, the effectiveness of different types of vertical barrier system for a present waste dump is compared in terms of the embodied energy (EE) and carbon emission in addition to the targeted service life. The model used for the assessment is streamlined energy and emission assessment model (SEEAM). The project involved constructing the vertical barrier around Bingipura fill in order to prevent the contamination of nearby water body due to the leachate from the waste dump. Different types of barriers are analyzed: sheet pile walls, concrete barriers, and the slurry-based cutoff walls (Na-bentonite). The performance analysis was carried out in the well-established software POLLUTEv7 which indicated the effectiveness of the sodium bentonite (Na-B) slurry wall and Soil-Bentonite backfill over other two for the leachate containment.
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Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Pandey, M.R. (2017). Sustainability Analysis of the Vertical Barriers Based on Energy and Carbon Assessment for Leachate Containment. In: Sivakumar Babu, G., Reddy, K., De, A., Datta, M. (eds) Geoenvironmental Practices and Sustainability. Developments in Geotechnical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4077-1_21
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