Waste Sites as Biological Reactors

Characterization and Modeling
Covering the physical and biological characteristics of solid waste sites, this book describes the parameters required to understand, model, and assess the capacity of a waste disposal site as an open biodegradation system. It includes analyses of waste and reactor kinetics, decomposition, temperature and moisture effects, and heat properties.
Where and how wastes disappear, and how the environment is affected by the process, are issues that affect cities and towns around the world. Recent investigations have convincingly shown that waste poses water, air, and public health dangers that necessitate highly efficient engineered controls. An inexpensive, effective, method for assessing impacts and risks of a system and devising management plans is to develop mathematical and quantitative models that are sufficiently representative to allow examination of physical systems as units subject to environmental factor