Quantification of regional leachate variance from municipal solid waste landfills in China》.pdf

Waste Management xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Waste Management journal homepage: www.else /loc ate/wasman Quantification of regional leachate variance from municipal solid waste landfills in China Na Yang a,c, Anders Damgaard b,⇑, Peter Kjeldsen b, Li-Ming Shao d, Pin-Jing He a,d,⇑ a State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China b Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark c Shenzhen Academy of Environmental Sciences, 50 Honggui Road, Shenzhen 518001, China d Institute of Waste Treatment and Reclamation, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The quantity of leachate is crucial when assessing pollution emanating from municipal landfills. In most Received 26 April 2015 cases, existing leachate quantification measures only take into account one source – precipitation, which Revised 13 September 2015 resulted in serious underestimation in China due to its waste properties: high moisture contents. To over- Accepted 14 September 2015 come this problem, a new estimation method was established considering two sources: (1) precipitation Available online xxxx infiltrated throughout waste layers, which was simulated with the HELP model, (2) water squeezed out of the waste itse