Characteristics of Biochar-Amended Soil Cover for Landfill Gas Mitigation

Poupak Yaghoubi, R. Krishna

In the proceedings of: GEO2011: 64th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 5th Pan-American Conference on Teaching and Learning of Geotechnical Engineering

Session: Geoenvironmental Engineering

ABSTRACT: In this study, biochar-amended soil cover was investigated to enhance reduction of CH4 emissions from landfills. This paper presents physical and chemical characteristics of biochar-amended soils. Specifically, moisture content, organic content, ash content, pH, particle size distribution, Atterberg limits, specific gravity, and permeability tests were conducted with biochar alone, soil alone, and biochar-amended soils. Moreover, batch experiments were performed using biochar alone, soil alone, and biochar-amended soils to quantify the effects of biochar amendment on adsorption of CH4. The batch testing showed that the maximum methane adsorbed in biochar-amended soil was higher than that for soil alone, due to the adsorption of CH4 to biochar, providing favorable conditions for methanotrophic oxidation to improve CH4 degradation within the cover.

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Poupak Yaghoubi; R. Krishna (2011) Characteristics of Biochar-Amended Soil Cover for Landfill Gas Mitigation in GEO2011. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Geotechnical Society.

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