Landfill site selection and landfill liner design for Ankara

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2010
Yal, Gözde Pınar
The main scope of this thesis is to select alternative landfill sites for Ankara based on the growing trends of Ankara towards the Sincan and Gölbaşı municipalities and to eventually select the best alternative. Landfill site selection was carried out utilizing Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria-Decision-Analysis (MCDA). A number of criteria were gathered in a GIS environment. Each criterion was assigned a weight value by applying the Pairwise Comparison Method (PCM). “The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS)”, was applied and the best landfill site alternative was determined. The geotechnical properties of the clay samples, obtained from selected locations in Gölbaşı and Sincan were determined in order to design a landfill liner system using compacted “Ankara Clay” as the liner material. The permeability values for the clay samples were determined by performing falling head tests and consolidation tests. The coefficient of permeability value of the compacted clay was determined to be in the order of 10-10 m/s for the Gölbaşı samples and 10-11 m/s for the Sincan samples for both of the tests performed. These tests indicated that the native clay was suitable to be utilized as a landfill liner material. The HELP and POLLUTE was employed for the purpose of landfill design and predicting the landfill hydrological processes. The landfill profile with a double lining system composed of geomembrane/compacted clay composite top and bottom liners with a drainage layer was determined to show the best performance amongst the others.

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G. P. Yal, “Landfill site selection and landfill liner design for Ankara,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.