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Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Datta, S., Zekkos, D., Fei, X., & McDougall, J. (2017, September). Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan. Presented at Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, Leeds

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is biodegradable in landfills under anaerobic conditions. The evolution of the biochemical, physical and mechanical characteristics of MSW are interdependent and is investigated first through an experiment and subsequently... Read More about Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan.

Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bustamante, H., Alwis, L. S. M., Grattan, K. T. V., Sun, T., Vorreiter, L., & González, J. (2017, May). Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers. Presented at Ozwater'17, Sydney, Australia

Humidity plays a key role in microbiologically induced corrosion of concrete gravity sewers. Minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. No reliable long lived (>1 week) humidity sensors are available, thus limiting the development of us... Read More about Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers.

Impact of living plants on the indoor air quality in a large modern building (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, A., & Fsadni, A. (2016, May). Impact of living plants on the indoor air quality in a large modern building. Presented at International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) World Building Congress

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of living plants in enhancing the indoor air quality (IAQ) and the general indoor environment within a large modern open-plan office building with a central atrium design and a building management s... Read More about Impact of living plants on the indoor air quality in a large modern building.

Settlement-The Short and the Long of it (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McDougall, J. (2008, March). Settlement-The Short and the Long of it. Presented at International Symposium on Waste Mechanics

Total settlement in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills can be considerable, from 25% to 50% of original fill thickness (Bjarngard and Edgers, 1990). Some occurs very quickly, i.e. during the filling phase (or short term), but there remains a signi... Read More about Settlement-The Short and the Long of it.

Mass loss and landfilled waste mechanics. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McDougall, J. (2009, March). Mass loss and landfilled waste mechanics. Presented at Third International Workshop "Hydro-Physico-Mechanics of Landfills"

The impact of mass loss on a particulate medium is investigated. Through a series of laboratory tests on a partly soluble sand, the quantitative impact of mass loss is measured at different applied loads. It is shown that for the material in question... Read More about Mass loss and landfilled waste mechanics..

Parallel Optimisation of Pump Schedules with a Thread-Safe Variant of EPANET Toolkit (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
López-Ibáñez, M., Prasad, D. T., & Paechter, B. (2008, August). Parallel Optimisation of Pump Schedules with a Thread-Safe Variant of EPANET Toolkit. Presented at Water Distribution Systems Analysis 2008

The optimisation of pump operations in water distribution networks is an ongoing research topic motivated by the great energy savings that a careful scheduling of pumps may achieve. State-of-the-art approaches often combine an optimisation algorithm,... Read More about Parallel Optimisation of Pump Schedules with a Thread-Safe Variant of EPANET Toolkit.

Geomechanics and Long-Term Landfill Settlement (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McDougall, J. (2008, March). Geomechanics and Long-Term Landfill Settlement. Presented at GeoCongress 2008

Long term landfill settlement is commonly attributed to two phenomena: creep and biodegradation. Biodegradation, which may contribute the greater proportion of long‐term settlement, is a function of a range of factors, many of which are not easily as... Read More about Geomechanics and Long-Term Landfill Settlement.

Assessment of landfill settlement data for evaluation of a hydro-bio-mechanical settlement model. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Needham, A., Jones, D. R. V., McDougall, J., Dixon, N., Braithwaite, P., & Rosevear, A. (2007, October). Assessment of landfill settlement data for evaluation of a hydro-bio-mechanical settlement model. Presented at Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium,

A hydro-bio-mechanical (HBM) model of waste degradation has been under development for several years to simulate the actual processes involved in the settlement of landfilled wastes. The objective of this current research is the further development o... Read More about Assessment of landfill settlement data for evaluation of a hydro-bio-mechanical settlement model..

Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, D. H., McDougall, J., Drury, D., Blakey, N., Braithwaite, P., & Rosevear, A. (2007, October). Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare. Presented at Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium,

The route to sustainable landfill while adhering to the Landfill Directive requires that ultimately, the waste site will reach equilibrium status. Chemical equilibrium is part of the requirements, but hydraulic equilibrium must also play a role. The... Read More about Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare..

Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of landfilled waste. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2006, April). Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of landfilled waste. Presented at Fourth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Carefree, Arizona, USA

Unsaturated flow modelling of landfill hydraulics is a potentially valuable tool for the prediction of leachate discharge rates, design of leachate control systems and simulation of biodegradation in engineered landfills. Such an approach requires in... Read More about Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of landfilled waste..

Moisture retention and movement in landfilled waste (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2005, May). Moisture retention and movement in landfilled waste. Presented at International Conference on Problematic Soils, GEOPRPOB 2005

No abstract available.

The use of an environmental assessment tool in healthcare buildings. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capper, G., Holmes, J., Hudson, G., & Currie, J. (2005, September). The use of an environmental assessment tool in healthcare buildings. Presented at SB05 Tokyo: The 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference

A variety of tools have been developed for the comprehensive assessment of the environmental performance of buildings and they are currently being used in different stages of the building design, construction and operation process. But each existing... Read More about The use of an environmental assessment tool in healthcare buildings..

Options for modelling hydraulic hysteresis (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2004, June). Options for modelling hydraulic hysteresis. Presented at Second International Workshop on Unsaturated Soils, Anacapri, Italy

Moisture retention curve in landfilled waste. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2003, September). Moisture retention curve in landfilled waste. Presented at Unsaturated soils

Moisture content and moisture movement are key factors in controlling the progress and rate of biodegradation within a landfill as it is the aqueous environment that facilitates the transport of nutrients and microbes. The modelling of infiltration a... Read More about Moisture retention curve in landfilled waste..

Development of a whole cell biochip for toxicant detection. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waldie, F. L., Binnie, D., & Christofi, N. (2002, April). Development of a whole cell biochip for toxicant detection. Paper presented at XIIth International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence

In the development of biosensors for ecotoxicity testing it is
desirable to produce a small, portable system that can be used in the field. Toxicity testing using bioluminescence is widely used in the laboratory utilising natural and genetically mod... Read More about Development of a whole cell biochip for toxicant detection..