Design of landfill daily cells

摘要

The objective of this paper is to study the behaviour of the landfill soil-to-refuse (S/R) ratio when size, geome- try and operating parameters of the daily cell vary over realistic ranges. A simple procedure is presented (1) for calculating the cell parameters values which minimise the S/R ratio and (2) for studying the ensitivity of this minimum S/R ratio to variations in cell size, final refuse density, working face length, lift height and cover thick- ness. In countries where daily soil cover is required, sav- ings in landfill space could be realised following this procedure.