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Titolo: Perspectives of using lignin as additive to improve the permeability of in-situ soils for barrier materials in landfills
Autori: Di Matteo, Lucio
Bulletti, Lorenzo
Capecchi, Eliana
Viola, Antonio La
Piccinino, Davide
Piscopo, Vincenzo 
Rivista: SUSTAINABILITY 
Data pubblicazione: 2020
Abstract: 
© 2020 by the authors. Very often, in-situ soil does not meet the requirements for landfill barriers; therefore, it is necessary to purchase the material from quarries. An increasing number of by-products have been proposed as alternative landfill barrier materials. The present study investigated the performance of two soils of Central Italy (alluvial and volcanic soils) with an organosolv lignin (sulfur-free lignin (SFL), a widespread by-product in the world. Laboratory investigations indicated that the volcanic soil mixed with 10% in weight of lignin did not reach the permeability value required for landfill bottom liners, also showing high compressibility. On the contrary, the addition of 20% to 30% lignin to the alluvial soil reached the permeability value recommended for the top-sealing layer of landfills: scanning electron microscope analysis indicated that the improvement was due mainly to the physical binding. Large-scale investigations should be carried out to evaluate the long-term performance of the mixtures. The increasing production of organosolv lignin worldwide gives this by-product the opportunity to be used as an additive for the realization of the top-sealing layer. The approach can save the consumption of raw materials (clayey soils from quarries), giving lignin a potential new field of application and recovering in-situ soils.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2067/43757
ISSN: 1937-0709
DOI: 10.3390/su12125197
Diritti: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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