Contribution of 3-D time-lapse ERT to the study of leachate recirculation in a landfill
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement (LTHE, UMR 5564, CNRS, INPG, IRD, UJF), B.P. 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 (France)
Leachate recirculation is a key process in the operation of municipal waste landfills as bioreactors. It aims at increasing the moisture content to optimise the biodegradation. Because waste is a very heterogeneous and anisotropic porous media, the geometry of the leachate plume recirculation is difficult to delineate from the surface at the scale of the bioreactor site. In this study, 3-D time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was used to obtain useful information for understanding leachate recirculation hydrodynamics. The ERT inversion methodology and the electrode arrays were optimised using numerical modelling simulating a 3-D leachate injection scenario. Time-lapse ERT was subsequently applied at the field scale during an experimental injection. We compared ERT images with injected volumes to evaluate the sensitivity of time-lapse ERT to delineate the plume migration. The results show that time-lapse ERT can accomplish the following: (i) accurately locate the injection plume, delineating its depth and lateral extension; (ii) be used to estimate some hydraulic properties of waste.
- OSTI ID:
- 21550347
- Journal Information:
- Waste Management, Vol. 31, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.09.005; PII: S0956-053X(10)00457-5; Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; ISSN 0956-053X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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