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UV Weathering of Geotextiles Q: My firm is providing construction quality assurance services for a landfill cell expansion. We are having an issue with our contractor and are going to be in a position of having 8 ounces/square yard (271 g/m2) of nonwoven geotextile exposed for a period of time, which exceeds the seven-day limit [...]

By , , |2018-08-01T00:00:21-05:00August 1, 2018|

Testing a new method for mining-waste storage using polymer-enhanced geosynthetic clay liners

FIGURE 1 Installation of a GCL at a tailings pond in South America. All photographs, graphs and illustrationscourtesy of Minerals Technologies Inc. Geosynthetic clay liners (GCL) and polymer-modified geosynthetic clay liners (PMG) are gaining favor for use in industrial waste disposal and ore-processing applications (Athanassopoulos et al. 2015, Donovan et al. 2016a, Donovan [...]

By , , |2018-07-31T00:00:30-05:00July 31, 2018|
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