LANDFILL LINERS

DEFINITION
A landfill liner or composite landfill liner, is intended to be a
low permeable barrier, which is laid down under engineered
landfill sites.

NEED OF LANDFILL LINERS

to isolate the landfill contents from the environment

to protect ground water from pollution

to protect soil from contamination

VARIOUS TYPES OF
LINERS

CLAY
GEO-MEMBRANE
HIGH DESITY POLYTHENE (HDPE)
GEONET
GEOTEXTILE

CLAY
To protect the ground water from landfill contaminants, clay
liner are constructed as a simple liner that is two to five feet
thick.

SOME DEMERITS OF
USING CLAY AS LINER
Natural clay is often fractured and cracked. A
mechanism called diffusion will move organic
chemicals like benzene through a three feet thick
clay landfill liner in approximately five years. Some
chemicals can degrade clay.

GEO-MEMBRANE
These liners are constructed from various plastic
materials, including polyvinyl chloride(PVC). This
material is strong resistant to most chemicals, considered
to be impermeable to water.

HIGH DENSITY
POLYTHENE(HDPE)
High Density Polythene is a hydrocarbon polymer prepared from
ethylene/petroleum by a catalytic process.

GEONET
Geonet is plastic net like drainage blanket used in landfill liner in
place of sand or gravel for leachate collection.

GEOTEXTILE

Geotextiles are permeable fabrics which, when used in

association with soil, have the ability to separate, filter, reinforce,
protect or drain.The geotextile layer is used to minimize the
intermixing of the soil and soil or gravel.

TYPES OF LINER
SYSTEM

SINGLE LINER SYSTEM

COMPOSITE LINER SYSTEM

DOUBLE LINER SYSTEM

SINGLE LINER SYSTEM

Single liners (Box-1)consist of a clay liner, geosynthetic clay liner or geo-membrane liner.

COMPOSITE LINER SYSTEM

Composite liner system consist of a geo-membrane in combination

with a clay liner(Box-2).It is more effective at limiting leachate
migration into subsoil than either a clay liner or a single geo
membrane layer.

DOUBLE LINER SYSTEMS

Double liner consists of either two single liners, two composite liners,
or a single and a composite liner (Box-3).The upper(primary) liner
usually function to collect the leachate, while the lower(secondary)
liner acts as leak-detection system and backup to the primary liner.

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