Water pollution due to organic contaminants is a serious issue because of acute toxicities
and carcinogenic nature of the pollutants. Among various water treatment methods …

This paper, which is based on an Invited Lecture for the 7th International Conference on
Environmental Geotechnics, gives an updated overview of the properties of transfer of …

Cement–bentonite (CB) slurry cutoff walls are extensively utilized to restrict the horizontal
flow of fluids. In this study, cement was replaced by four various contents of 0%, 10%, 20 …

Lead (Pb) can accumulate in organisms causing damage to liver and kidney functions.
Preventing Pb 2+ migration to surrounding environments is considered of great necessity …

Diffusion of contaminants can play a significant if not dominant role in many applications
encountered within the field of environmental geotechnics. The objective of this paper is to …

A novel soil-bentonite backfill is proposed for use in vertical cutoff walls to contain phenol in
groundwater at contaminated sites. The backfill consists of sand and bentonite modified with …

Soil-bentonite (SB) cutoff walls have been extensively used as vertical engineering barriers
to control groundwater flow and subsurface contaminant migration. As the pollution …

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a toxic endocrine disruptor often found in landfill leachate. Adsorption
behaviors and mechanisms of BPA onto organo-bentonites amended loess, eg …

The effect of zeolite amendment for enhanced sorption capacity on the consolidation
behavior and hydraulic conductivity, k, of a representative soil-bentonite (SB) backfill for …

Groundwater pollution by leachate leakage is one of the most common environmental
hazards associated with municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill sites. However, landfill …