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Considering exponential decreases in landfill gas (LFG) generation and gas permeability of waste with depth, a design method for vertical gas well spacing to achieve a 90% recovery rate is proposed through a quantitative analysis of over 500,000 scenarios calculated using a normalized analytical solution. Both increasing cover resistance and pump capacity can allow an increase in the well spacing while maintaining a 90% recovery rate but may result in a maximum gas pressure below the cover ranging from −5 kPa to tens of kPa. A balance between cover and pump effects is to be achieved in this paper by constraining a maximum gas pressure of 1 kPa below the cover and a recovery rate of 90%. With this goal, the design cover resistance is shown to be strongly related to LFG generation and vertical gas permeability at the top of the waste and the non-homogeneity of LFG generation with depth, but is independent of vacuum pressure and non-homogeneity of gas permeability with depth. A chart suitable for designing to meet these objectives is proposed and illustrated by a practical application.
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Zheng, QT., Rowe, R.K., Feng, SJ. (2019). Balance Between Cover Resistance and Pump Capacity for Designing Vertical Gas Wells. In: Zhan, L., Chen, Y., Bouazza, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 2. ICEG 2018. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_8
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