A holistic approach to Concentration Assessment of hazards in the risk assessment of landfill leachate

Butt, Talib E. and Oduyemi, K. O. K. (2003) A holistic approach to Concentration Assessment of hazards in the risk assessment of landfill leachate. Environment International, 28 (7). pp. 597-608. ISSN 0160-4120

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Abstract

Risk assessment is a new research area. The risk assessment research area deals with a wide range of issues other than landfills. Examples of these issues are Radiation, Food Industry, Ecology, Epidemiology, etc. The authors have found that there are generic elements in risk assessment and these elements are independent of the subject areas mentioned above. An important example of these generic elements is the Concentration Assessment of hazards and is equally important from the perspective of landfill risk assessment. Furthermore, in the literature review of landfill risk assessment approaches, no evidence has been discovered of a holistic risk assessment methodology for landfill gas, leachate, or degraded landfill waste. A range of knowledge deficiencies has been found in the literature reviewed to date. One of these deficiencies in knowledge is the lack of a holistic procedure for carrying out Concentration Assessment. From the perspective of landfill leachate, this paper discusses the extent to which the Concentration Assessment of hazards is absent in landfill risk assessment approaches described in the literature reviewed to date, and the elements that should be added to the procedure of the Concentration Assessment in order to enhance the process of risk assessment. The paper also briefly outlines a holistic procedure for the Concentration Assessment and a corresponding computer model for the risk assessment of landfill leachate.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Landfill, Landfill leachate, Risk assessment, Hazards Concentration Assessment, Modelling
Subjects:	H900 Others in Engineering
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2019 15:39
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:33
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40543

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