EREF Project Publications
For EREF projects published before 2008, please send an e-mail to foundation@erefdn.org.
Understanding and Predicting Temperatures in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Investigators: University of Virginia, North Carolina State University, City College of New York, Geosyntec Consultants
Start Date: December 2014
End Date: 2022
Award Amount: $1,060,591
Gas Mapping Lidar and Tracer Correlation Methods for Landfill Methane Emissions Quantification
Investigator: Bridger Photonics and University of Delaware
Start Date: April 2018
End Date: 2022
Award Amount: $240,000
Evaluation and Management of High-Moisture Waste Disposal in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Investigator: Colorado State University and the University of Virginia
Start Date: November 2018
End Date: 2020
Award Amount: $235,000
Risks of Food Waste Recovery: Characterizing the Contaminants in MSW Organics from Different Sources
Investigator: University of Maine
Start Date: April 2018
End Date: 2020
Award Amount: $143,000
Mineralogy Optimization for Metal and Chloride Immobilization in Co-Disposed Flue Gas Desulfurization Brines and Bituminous Coal Fly Ash
Investigator: Georgia Institute of Technology
Start Date: November 2016
End Date: 2019
Award Amount: $195,917
Investigator: George Mason University
Start Date: October 2017
End Date: 2022
Award Amount: $150,000
MSW Combustion Ash Co-Disposal with Unburned Waste: Implications for Elevated Temperature Landfills
Investigator: University of Central Florida
Start Date: December 1, 2018
End Date: July 2021
Award Amount: $140,000
Effects of Aggressive Leachates on Modified Geosynthetic Clay Liners (GCLs)
Investigator: Florida State University
Start Date: October 2017
End Date: 2021
Award Amount: $152,105
Detection of Nuisance Odors Using Odor Binding Protein Sensor
Investigator: Florida Atlantic University
Start Date: December 2017
End Date: April 2021
Award Amount: $150,000
Effect of Food Waste Diversion on Leachate Quality
Investigator: North Carolina State University
Start Date: March 2017
End Date: Dec 2020
Award Amount: $75,000
Making up for Lost Time (and Space): Quantifying Non-hazardous Industrial Waste Output and Beneficial Use Opportunities in the US
Investigators: Yale University
Start Date: May 2016
End Date: Dec 2020
Award Amount: $150,000
Implications of Solid and Liquid Waste Co-Disposal on Organic Stability and Biochemical Compatibility
Investigators: Colorado State University
Start Date: April 2015
End Date: Dec 2020
Award Amount: $185,000
Developing Strategies to Recover and Treat Nutrients in the Landfill Leachate
Investigators: University of Utah & University of Central Florida
Start Date: October 2016
End Date: September 2020
Award Amount: $141,704
Assessing Accuracy of Tracer Dilution Measurements of Methane Emissions from Landfills with Wind Modeling – Extension
Investigators: University of Delaware & University of California, Berkley
Start Date: October 2016
End Date: May 2020
Award Amount: $93,069
Simultaneous Concentration and Treatment of Landfill Leachate by Hybrid Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes
Investigators: University of Arizona
Start Date: October 2014
End Date: January 2020
Award Amount: $120,040
Expert Review of Wisconsin’s Landfill Organic Stability Rule
Investigators: Colorado State University
Start Date: September 2014
End Date: 2018
Award Amount: $32,000
An Integrated Leachate Treatment System for Removing Contaminants and Recovering Resources
Investigators: Virginia Tech
Start Date: April 2015
End Date: April 2019
Award Amount: $160,000
Development and Assessment of Cost-Effective Sustainable Integrated Organics Management Strategies
Investigators: North Carolina State University
Start Date: March 2016
Award Amount: $127,525
Design of Waste Transfer Station Concrete Overlays against Premature Deterioration
Investigators: North Carolina State University
Start Date: September 2015
End Date: December 2018
Award Amount: $160,000
Assessing Accuracy of Tracer Dilution Measurements of Methane Emissions from Landfills with Wind Modeling
Investigators: University of Delaware and University of California Berkeley
Start Date: June 2013
End Date: July 2018
Award Amount: $200,890
Water Repellency for Ash Containment and Reuse
Investigator: University of North Carolina Charlotte
Start Date: July 2014
End Date: June 2018
Award Amount: $291,125
Geopolymer-Based Solutions for Coal Combustion Product Solidification and Stabilization
Investigators: University of Texas at Austin & University of California, Los Angeles
Start Date: September 2015
End Date: April 2018
Award Amount: $285,000
Approaches to Mitigation of Landfill Leachate-Induced UV Transmittance Impacts
Investigators: Montclair State University
Start Date: September 2014
End Date: March 2018
Award Amount: $175,652
Advancing Multi-Stage Anaerobic Digestion Technologies through Improved Hydrolysis Processes
Investigators: Colorado State University
Start Date: September 2013
End Date: March 2018
Award Amount: $118,272
Resource Recovery from Diverted Food Wastes via Hydrothermal Carbonization
Investigators: University of South Carolina
Start Date: May 2014
End Date: January 2018
Award Amount: $123,000
Accelerating and Stabilizing Anaerobic Digestion by Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer
Investigators: University of Massachusetts
Start Date: February 2015
End Date: December 2017
Award Amount: $125,000
Methane Oxidation: Field-Scale Test Sections Experiment
Investigators: Florida State University
Start Date: August 2015
End Date: November 2017
Award Amount: $70,000
Development of a Strategy for the Treatment of Landfill Leachates
Investigators: Virginia Tech
Start Date: May 2013
End Date: October 2017
Award Amount: $171,842
Integrated Solid Waste Management and Its Environmental Sustainability in a Carbon Constrained Environment
Investigators: North Carolina State University
Start Date: December 2009
End Date: September 2016
Award Amount: $268,873
Evaluating Air Emissions and Fuel Efficiency of Solid Waste Collection Vehicles
Investigators: University of Nebraska at Lincoln and North Carolina State University
Start Date: March 2012
End Date: 2015
Award Amount: $262,602
Transitioning from Active to Passive Care at Municipal Landfills: Full-Scale Site Evaluations using the EPCC Methodology
Investigators: Geosyntec Consultants
Start Date: October 2014
End Date: April 2016
Award Amount: $40,403
Carbon Sequestration in Landfills: Documentation from Field Samples
Investigators: North Carolina State University
Start Date: June 2009
End Date: December 2014
Award Amount: $37,784
Development of Methods to Measure the Hydrogen Sulfide Production Potential of Sulfur-Containing Wastes
Investigators: North Carolina State University
Start Date: August 2012
End Date: April 2018
Award Amount: $163,336
Energy Source Creation from Diverted Food Wastes via Hydrothermal Carbonization
Investigators: University of South Carolina
Start Date: February 2012
Award Amount: $132,577
Joint Industry Air Testing Development
Investigators: Cygnus Environmental Group & Florida State University
Start Date: May 2012
Award Amount: $432,000
Complete Recycling of Concrete Waste through Geopolymerizations
Investigators: University of Arizona
Start Date: August 2011
Award Amount: $68,021
Revisions to the National Waste & Recycling Association Manual of Recommended Safety Practices
Investigators: National Waste & Recyling Association
Start Date: June 2011
End Date: December 2013
Award Amount: $50,000
International Field Validation of a New IPCC Model for Landfill Methane Emissions
Investigators: University of Illinois – Chicago
Start Date: January 2011
End Date: December 2012
Award Amount: $145,880
Ergonomics Study of Waste Collection
Investigators: University of Central Florida
Start Date: August 2010
End Date: August 2012
Award Amount: $180,271
Impacts to Public Recycling from Psychological and Technological Stimulus
Investigators: University of Georgia
Start Date: July 2011
End Date: June 2012
Award Amount: $67,775
Field-Scale Assessment of Evapotranspirative Methane Oxidation Caps for Sustainable Management of MSW Landfills in Sub-Humid Climates
Investigators: Michigan State University
Start Date: July 2007
End Date: June 2012
Award Amount: $145,000
Development & Application of a Tracer Gas Correlation Technique to Determine Whole Landfill Rates of Methane Emission & Oxidation
Investigators: Florida State University and Cygnus Environmental
Start Date: February 2011
End Date: February 2012
Award Amount: $30,588
Fate of Nanoparticles in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Investigators: University of Central Florida
Start Date: January 2010
End Date: December 2011
Award Amount: $156,544
Quantifying Capture Efficiency of Gas Collection Systems with Gas Tracers
Investigators: University of Delaware
Start Date: January 2010
End Date: August 2011
Award Amount: $140,993
Modernizing Models and Data on Methane Production from Landfills
Investigators: North Carolina State University
Start Date: August 2010
End Date: July 2011
Award Amount: $110,000
Determining Critical Data Requirements for Implementation of the EPCC Methodology Prerequisites Module – a Multi-Site Case Study
Investigators: Geosyntec Consultants
Start Date: September 2007
End Date: March 2011
Award Amount: $100,000
Field Intercomparisons of Methods to Measure Fugitive Methane Emissions
Investigators: SCS Engineers
Start Date: July 2008
End Date: January 2011
Award Amount: $488,788
Constraining the Effects of Secondary Porosity on CH4 Oxidation
Investigators: Florida State University
Start Date: January 2010
End Date: December 2010
Award Amount: $100,000
Moisture Consumption during Gas Production in Landfills: Implications to Permitting ET Caps
Investigators: Michigan State University
Start Date: August 2009
End Date: August 2010
Award Amount: $25,000
Radiological Investigation Results for Pennsylvania Landfill Leachate: 2009 Tritium Update
Investigators: Safety Ecology Corporation
End Date: February 2010
Award Amount: $72,500
Landfill Gas Management: A Roadmap for EREF Directed Research
Investigators: North Carolina State University and University of Central Florida
Start Date: September 2007
End Date: February 2010
Award Amount: $102,363
Beyond Disposables: Eco-Clamshell Reusable To-Go Program
Investigators: Eckerd College
End Date: December 2009
Award Amount: $32,000
Microbial Fuel Cells in Landfill Applications
Investigators: University of New Hampshire
End Date: December 2009
Award Amount: $121,516
Modeling of Hydrogen Sulfide Generation from Landfills Beneficially Utilizing Processed Construction and Demolition Materials
Investigators: University of New Hampshire
End Date: December 2009
Award Amount: $147,558
Treatment of Leachate Before Injection into a Bioreactor Landfill: Reduction of the Pipe Clogging Potential
Investigators: University of Manitoba
Start Date: December 2005
End Date: November 2009
Award Amount: $100,000
Geophysical Monitoring of Leachate Recirculation at Orchard Hills Landfill
Investigators: University of Illinois
End Date: June 2009
Award Amount: $26,875
The Effect of Liquid Waste Addition on Degradation of Paper Products
Investigators: Virginia Tech
End Date: June 2009
Award Amount: $65,000