Agamuthu, Pariatamby and Mohd Afzanizam, M. and Venu Mahendra, M.S. (2011) Material flow analysis of aluminium in a dynamic system: jeram sanitary landfill. Malaysian Journal of Science, 30 (1). pp. 16-27. ISSN 1394-3065,
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Jeram Sanitary Landfill (JSL) receives waste from seven major municipalities, mostly from Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Municipality. The types of waste received are domestic waste, bulky waste and garden waste only. Currently, an average of 2100 tonne of solid waste per day from 470 compactors were landfilled daily at JSL. Each compactor disposed 4.6 tonnes which gives estimated at 766,500 tonnes in 2010. Out of this amount, 9.25 tonnes of Al end up in landfill per year. Most of the aluminum can are sent for recycling with approximately 1.39 tonnes/day. The leaching quantified through both gas and leachate was at 0.42 tonnes/day and 0.14 tonnes/day respectively. From the gas leaching, about 0.34 tonnes/day was released from the soil while 0.12 tonnes/day escaped through evaporation. Al in soil was quantified highest at near surface. This was identified as sink of the whole Al system. A major problem of sanitary landfill is the assessment of element transfers from inputs to outputs as a function of time due to the dynamic nature of the landfill activities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Aluminium, Jeram landfill, Material flow, Solid waste composition |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Miss Malisa Diana |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2013 01:50 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2021 07:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/4973 |
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