Abstract
The emission potential, which represents the total leachable mass in
landfill waste body, is hard to measure directly. Therefore we propose
to quantify it by assimilating available measurements. The leachate
production rate is influenced by the total water storage in the waste
body, while both total chloride mass and total water storage in the
waste body influence the chloride concentration in the leachate. Thus
assimilating leachate volume and chloride concentration simultaneously
will help quantify the uncertainties in emission potential. This study
investigated the feasibility of using particle filter in a
concentration-volume coupled travel time distribution model to estimate
the emission potential. Leachate production rates and chloride
concentrations were assimilated simultaneously by a weakly coupled data
assimilation(WCDA) method. The time lag issue in the travel time
distribution model was solved by adding a daily model error to cover
layer states. The proposed method was tested in synthetic experiments
firstly to investigate the performance. The results show that the
uncertainties in chloride mass and waste body total water storage were
quantified and reduced. The predictions of chloride concentrations were
also improved.