Sentence examples for landfill engineering from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, practical measures allowing strain control in geosynthetic materials used in landfill engineering are proposed.

Homeowners, said Phillip Gleason, director of landfill engineering at the Department of Sanitation, do not want to wait decades for their real estate values to rise.

Knowledge of the likely ranges of waste mechanical properties is required to assess potential modes of failure and hence to design the landfill engineering measures.

This table also includes two recently assessed natural soils suitable for use in landfill engineering and a typical bentonite sand mixture for comparison.

Comparing the products with some of the many soil types and mixtures used in landfill and repository engineering can help direct future research into potential barrier material.

The specialised mixtures fall within the broad range of sand bentonite mixtures used in landfill and repository engineering [39, 42], with the proviso of containing predominantly sodium-montmorillonite.

Calcium bentonite is also widely used in landfill and repository engineering, but undergoes far less swelling and its primary role may be in filtering leachates via ion exchange [40].

Bentonites and bentonite containing sealing materials are used for many years for sealing purposes in foundation, dike construction, hydraulic engineering and landfill construction, especially for encapsulation of old waste deposits.

Designing environmentally sound landfills is a challenging engineering task due to complex interactions of numerous design variables; such as landfill size, waste characteristics, and site hydrogeology.

Nowadays, the use of recycled waste materials in road construction and rehabilitation processes aimed to preserve non-renewable resources and to solve management problems related to the expansion of landfills become a promising engineering solution.

And it is safer to have a few central dumps that are monitored than a waste pit on each of the thousands of drilling sites throughout the Bakken shale field, said John McCain, the executive vice president and principal engineer at Carlson McCain, the engineering company designing the landfill proposed in Ross.