COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WASTE GEOTECHNICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5146 WASTE GEOTECHNICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI HAKAN ÖREN

Offered to

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
Geotechnicel Engineering (English)
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to teach students the fundamental aspects of geotechnics that apply to problems of waste containment. Under the context of this course, basic concepts on design of landfill liner components (contaminant barrier, leachate collection system and etc ), determination of laboratory and field hydraulic conductivity of the barriers, contaminant transport, slope stability of landfills, design of final covers and permeable reactive barriers will be given.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand basic elements of waste containment systems,
2   Develop an understanding of contaminant transport through soils,
3   Determine laboratory and field hydraulic conductivity,
4   Categorize landfill liner components based on their functions
5   Provide sufficient information on landfilling for geotechnical design,

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction 1.1. Municipal solid waste (MSW) generation rates 1.2. Overall waste management 1.3. Transformation of solid waste 1.4. Transformation of hazardous waste in MSW 1.5. Combustion of MSW
2 Soil Water Flow 2.1. Flow of water through soil 2.2. Darcy s Law 2.3. Hydraulic Conductivity concept 2.4. Laboratory hydraulic conductivity methods 2.5. Permeameter types for hydraulic conductivity tests 2.6. Field hydraulic conductivity methods
3 Clay Mineralogy 3.1. Types of clay minerals 3.2. Clay double layer 3.3. Cation exchange properties of clayey soils
4 Landfill Liners 4.1. Impermeable Liner Types 4.2. Compacted Clay Liners (CCLs) 4.3. Design of CCLs 4.4. Alternative liners (sand-bentonite mixtures, zeolite-bentonite mixtures)
5 Composite Liners 5.1. Composite Liner Types 5.2. Role of Geotextiles in landfills 5.3. Role of Geomembranes in landfills 5.4. Geosynthetic clay liners
6 Leakage through Liners 6.1. Leakage through compacted clay liners 6.2. Leakage through composite liners 6.3. Transport processes (advection, diffusion, mechanical dispersion)
7 Leakage through Liners (continue) 7.1. Transient transport 7.2. Effect of material properties 7.3. Applications for one-dimensional problems
8 Mid-term exam
9 Leachate Treatment and Landfill Gases 9.1. Leachate treatment/disposal 9.2. Wastewater treatment 9.3. Wetland system 9.4. Leachate Recirculation methods
10 Landfill Gases 10.1. Landfill gas constituents 10.2. Components of landfill gas management systems 10.3. Basic types of gas management systems
11 Landfill Slope Stability 11.1. Types of landfill slope stability failures 11.2. Selection of strength parameters 11.3. Stability analyses 11.4. Stability of liner systems 11.5. Stability of cover systems
12 Final covers-Traditional covers 12.1. Function of final covers 12.2. Types of covers 12.3 Components of covers
13 Final covers-Water balance covers (continue) 13.1. Monolithic barriers 13.2. Capillary barriers 13.3. Unsaturated soil properties
14 Mid-term exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):

Qian, X., Koerner, R.M., Gray, D.H. (2002). Geotechnical Aspects of Landfill Design and Construction, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.


Supplementary Book(s):
Fetter C.W. (1999). Contaminant Hydrogeology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
Daniel, D.E. (1993). Geotechnical Practise for Waste Disposal, Chapman and Hall, New York.

References: Course notes and supplementary documents (standards, articles and etc.) will be sent to students for every week.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Courses will be held in class (3h). The course will be done by presentations. The necessary and important parts of presentations will be deleted. These deleted presentations and other supplementary documents will be sent to students prior to course. Students should take a printout of these notes before coming to class. Then, course notes, which include important parts, will be presented in the class. At the same time, students can complete blank parts of the presentation on their notes while listening.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1, 2, 3: Measured with mid-term exams.
LO3, 4, 5: Measured with homework and final presentation.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

The attendance to the class will be considered during grading. Homework should be given on time.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst.Prof. A. Hakan ÖREN: ali.oren@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 13:00 - 15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 2 20 40
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 2 2 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.253344
LO.355
LO.454
LO.5555

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