Waste Disposal and Resource Recovery

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	Waste Disposal and Resource Recovery

Course Location Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK
Cost Ł1350
Type of course in situ
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Course provider Cranfield University

Course overview

To acquire knowledge of the changing nature, sustainability, technical concepts and requirements for landfill management and explore the continued role of landfill in integrated waste management.

Course description

-principles: Changing philosophy, dilute and disperse/natural attenuation, engineered containment (legacy), co-disposal, bioreactors, aerobic landfill, planning, legacy, reliance, international perspectives including their advantages, disadvantages, limitations and capabilities

-legislative regimes and their requirements: Control of Pollution Act 1974, Environmental Protection Act 1990, Pollution Prevention & Control, Landfill Directive

-operations: Infrastructure, mining, engineering (Natural and engineered barriers, liner performance, permeability, mass transfer), cover material, restoration (aftercare, planning, monitoring, liability), hazardous waste landfill, inert landfill, accelerated stabilisation, waste acceptance

-impacts: Emissions, fires, odour, nuisance, unlicensed sites (Environment Act Part IIA)

-biological, chemical and physical processes: microbiology, decomposition processes, methanogenesis, environmental equilibrium status

-landfill gas: production, management control options (oxidation, flaring, utilisation), minimising emissions, climate change, monitoring, treatment

-leachate: Generation, properties (toxicity), composition and chemistry, collection, management (recirculation, irrigation), treatment, discharge; and

-hydrogeology: Groundwater protection, contaminant hydrology, modelling, monitoring, private water supply.

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