PLATFORM: Processes, mechanics & management of residual wastes

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Other)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor W Powrie
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton

Standard

EPSRC

01 November 2004

31 October 2009

60 months

£461,149

Environmental engineering

South East

Engineering -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Professor W Powrie, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton

Professor C Banks, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
Dr RP Beaven, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
Dr DJ Richards, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton

Project Contact, University of Surrey
Project Contact, Geodelft Innovation BV, The Netherlands
Project Contact, Swedish Defence Research Establishment
Project Contact, Cleanaway Ltd
Project Contact, University College London
Project Contact, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Current European waste management policy is based on a hierarchy that places landfill at the bottom and waste minimisation at the top. However, forward thinking regarding future policy is increasingly focussed on waste management as part of a resource cycle, in which the problems posed by residual wastes (i.e., those that cannot sensibly be re-used or recycled: currently 80 Mt/annum in the UK) must be acknowledged and addressed. Responsible resource management requires not only that the usefullife of materials is prolonged and that overall energy consumption is minimised, but also that residual wastes are returned to the environment in a sustainable way. This must be based on a sound scientific understanding of the behaviour and properties of residual wastes: the aim of the proposed Platform Grant is to underpin, strengthen and develop supporting research in the five key relevant areas of gas and liquid flow, waste structure, process modelling, leachate/liner interaction and wastemechanics. Research facilitated by the Platform Grant will be aimed at obtaining parameters, developing models and applying the results within each of the five areas of proposed activity, by means of laboratory, pilot and field scale experiments and numerical modelling and analysis, as indicated in the attached Case for Support

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