TY - JOUR A1 - Kalbe, Ute A1 - Müller, Werner A1 - Berger, Wolfgang A1 - Eckardt, Jürgen T1 - Transport of organic contaminants within composite liner systems N2 - Composite liners (a geomembrane in intimate contact with a mineral liner) are frequently used to line landfills and contaminated sites. It is therefore very important to characterise the behaviour of these systems even under extreme conditions. An investigation was undertaken to determine the influence of a mixture of concentrated organic contaminants on composite liner materials taken from test cells that had been dismantled after a 12-year permeation test. The organic hydrocarbons had permeated the HDPE-geomembrane and had then migrated or had been adsorbed within the mineral liners, depending on their properties. The obtained concentration profiles of the contaminant mixture components indicate that the various mineral layer materials have selective retardation abilities which correspond to the different parameters of the organic compounds as well as of the mineral layer. In addition, contaminant transport in the composite liners tested was modelled and the results of the model analysis compared with measurement data. An example (acetone) illustrates the calculated spatial and temporal contaminant concentration. The composite liners investigated exhibit a very good sealing capacity against the concentrated organic contaminants used. KW - Composite liner system KW - Transport modelling KW - Contaminants PY - 2002 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-1317(01)00093-X SN - 0169-1317 SN - 1872-9053 VL - 21 IS - 1-2 SP - 67 EP - 76 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-1353 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -