Synopses & Reviews
Using biotechnology to help control landfill processes can mitigate costs, shorten the time needed to process solid waste, and ease the typical ecological damage to the land being used. This first-of-its-kind book provides regulators, designers, landfill owners, and operators with information that supports the utility of landfill bioreactors and provides design and operating criteria essential for the successful application of this technology. It pulls together laboratory, pilot, and full-scale experiences into one concise guide to designing and running municipal landfills as bioreactors.
Landfill Bioreactor Design and Operation covers the history and background of landfill technology, research studies of actual bioreactor landfills, expected leachate and gas yields, specific design criteria, operation guidelines, and reuse of landfill sites to avoid having to establish new sites. For anyone looking for an alternative to large, wasteful landfill sites, this book provides a practical alternative to the problem.
Synopsis
Using biotechnology to help control and recirculate landfill by-products can mitigate costs, shorten the time needed to process solid waste, and ease the typical ecological damage to the land being used. This first-of-its-kind book provides readers with information that supports the utility of landfill biore-actors and provides design and operating criteria essential for the successful application of this technology.
-- Describes the advantages of biore-actor technology -- accelerated waste stabilization rates, enhanced gas production, facilitated leachate management, volume reduction, and minimized long-term liability
-- Brings together information that will help creators of future biore-actor systems benefit from the lessons gained from previous work
-- Uses case studies to describe design and operation issues and to discuss the potential of landfill mining as a method to recover treated waste materials and to reuse bioreactor cells
-- Provides drawings, tables, and references that aid the reader in making difficult decisions about waste management