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UTA civil engineers shaping sustainable solutions, increasing energy production at Denton landfill

Alternative energyCities, counties and countries have spent decades covering trash with intricate layers of liners and soil in landfills as the best way to protect groundwater and eventually reclaim usable green space. Now civil engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington are asking whether that refuse should be dug up to recycle it or convert it to energy through modern processes designed to boost methane production in landfills. UTA and the City of Denton are partnering on a groundbreaking landfill project. The project is supported through a three-year, $399,806 Denton grant.

Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability to offer vital landfill training globally

Environmental impactThe University of Texas at Arlington has established the Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability to provide leadership and expertise to countries and cities around the globe in how to make waste management and landfills more efficient and sustainable. In addition, the center will share research with charter and member cities in Texas to better manage their landfills into the next century. Sahadat Hossain, a UT Arlington civil engineering  professor, will serve as director of the institute. The center stems from Hossain’s extensive work in

UT Arlington civil engineers increasing energy created from solid waste

Project to double power generated by landfill methane gasTwo UT Arlington civil engineering professors are working with a new imaging system that has doubled the amount of methane gas produced by the city of Denton landfill. The landfill is the first in Texas to implement the Enhanced Leachate Recirculation system. The gas now provides power for about 1,500 Denton households. However, with increased efficiency of ELR operation, the system will be able to power 3,000 homes in the city of 117,000, officials said. Sahadat Hossain and Melanie Sattler, associate professors of civil

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