Abstract
Heat generation occurs in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills due to degradation of the organic fraction of the MSW, which results in elevated temperature. There is a great influence on the temperature distribution from leachate migration in landfills. Therefore, it is beneficial to the operation and management of the landfill to study the thermal evolution in a landfill under the effect of heat generation and heat convection. In this paper, the heat convection-diffusion model of landfill is established, and the analytical solution of the equation is obtained. The solution is used to analyze the variation of temperature under the effect of heat generation and heat convection in a landfill. The existing theory is verified by the measured data, and the influencing factors are analyzed. The calculation results show that convection in the landfill and heat generation parameters all have great influence on the temperature of the landfill. When the convection velocity becomes larger, the influence of depth of the atmospheric temperature increases. The temperature of the landfill increases with the increase of peak heat generation rate factor A.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Feng SJ, Jiao Y, Zheng QT (2014) Research on leachate recirculation in landfills with considering MSW stratification. Chin J Undergr Space Eng 10(6):1263–1269
Gholamifard S, Eymard R, Duquennoi C (2008) Modeling anaerobic bioreactor landfills in methanogenic phase: long term and short term behaviors. Water Res 42(20):5061–5071
Hanson JL, Liu WL, Yesiller N (2008) Analytical and numerical methodology for modeling temperatures in landfills. Geotech Spec Publ 78(177):2599–2604
Hanson JL, Yeşiller N, Onnen MT et al (2013) Development of numerical model for predicting heat generation and temperatures in msw landfills. Waste Manag 33(10):1993–2000
Haynes WM (2011) CRC handbook of chemistry and physics, 95th edn. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 882–920
Krushelnitzky RP, Brachman RWI (2013) Buried high-density polyethylene pipe deflections at elevated temperatures. Geotext Geomembr 40(5):69–77
Liu XD, Shi JY, Qian XD et al (2012) Biodegradation behavior of municipal solid waste with liquid aspects: experiment and verification. J Environ Eng 139(12):1488–1496
Rowe RK, Islam MZ (2009) Impact of landfill liner time-temperature history on the service life of hdpe geomembranes. Waste Manag 29(10):2689–2699
Southen JM, Rowe RK (2011) Numerical modelling of thermally induced desiccation of geosynthetic clay liners observed in laboratory experiments. Geosynth Int 18(5):289–303
Yesiller N, Hanson JL, Liu WL (2005) Heat generation in municipal solid waste landfills. J Geotech Geoenviron 131(11):1330–1344
Yeşiller N, Hanson JL, Yee EH (2015) Waste heat generation: a comprehensive review. Waste Manag 42:166–179
Yoshida H, Rowe RK (2003) Consideration of landfill liner temperature. In: Proceedings Sardinia
Acknowledgments
The current study was financially supported by the key fund of China Natural Science Foundation (41530637) and the general fund of China Natural Science Foundation (41372268).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lei, H., Shi, J., Wu, X. (2019). Temperature Variation Under the Consideration of Convection and Heat Generation in Landfills. In: Zhan, L., Chen, Y., Bouazza, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 2. ICEG 2018. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_17
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-2223-5
Online ISBN: 978-981-13-2224-2
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)