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Lead researchers

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering
Connect with David

Email: djr@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Research interests

  • Controlled anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation of municipal and industrial solid wastes
  • Concepts for an integrated farming system for non competitive food and fuel production
  • Energy production from digestion of crops and agricultural wastes
Connect with Charles

Email: C.J.Banks@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Multiple-tracer tests for contaminant transport process identification in saturated municipal solid waste
N.D. Woodman, T.C. Rees-White, A. Stringfellow, R.P. Beaven & A.P. Hudson, 2015, Waste Management, 38, 250-262
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.12.012
Type: article
A multi-component two-phase flow algorithm for use in landfill processes modelling
J.K. White, D. Nayagum & R.P. Beaven, 2014, Waste Management, 34(9), 1644-1656
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.05.005
Type: article
A new economic instrument for financing accelerated landfill aftercare
R.P. Beaven, K. Knox, J.R. Gronow, D Greedy, O Hjelmar & H Scharff, 2014, Waste Management, 34(7), 1191-1198
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.03.024
Type: article
Mechanical heat treatment of municipal solid waste
A. Stringfellow, W. Powrie, W. Castano-Tejada, S. Whatmore, A. Gilbert, R. Manser & R. Maslen, 2011, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management, 164(3), 179-190
DOI: 10.1680/warm.2011.164.3.179
Type: article