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Andrew Cooke,  M.E.Sc

e-mail:acooke@.uwo.ca

Here's a Bit About Me...

I'm a graduate student at The University of Western Ontario, studying Geo-Environmental Engineering. I am presently working towards a Ph.D.. My thesis relates to modelling the clogging occurring in landfill leachate collection systems due to biological growth, biologically driven mineral precipitation, and suspended solids attachment. A computer program has been designed which combines a model of biofilm growth with a relationship between anaerobic activity and mineral precipitation (see Cooke et al., 1999). These processes may be implemented in either a column experiment or field system. The modelling of experiments demonstrating mineral precipitation and biofilm growth in columns fed synthetic landfill leachate has been performed with good results (Cooke, 1997). Further modelling of synthetic and real leachate - fed columns, unsaturated columns, two dimensional flow mesocosms, and field conditions will follow.

Journal Publications

  1. Cooke A. J. and Rowe, R. K. (1999). Extension of porosity and surface area models for uniform porous media for studying clogging of landfill collection systems. J. Environ. Eng. Div., ASCE., Vol. 125, No. 2, pp. 126-136.

  2. Cooke, A. J., Rowe, R. K., Rittmann, B. E. and Fleming, I. R.(1999). "Modelling biochemically driven mineral precipitation in anaerobic biofilms." Water, Science and Technology., Vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 57-64.

  3. Cooke, A. J., Rowe, R. K., Rittmann, B. E., VanGulck, J., and Millward, S. (2001). "Biofilm growth and mineral precipitation in synthetic leachate columns.", J. Geot. and Geoenv. Engng., ASCE, Vol. 127, No. 10, pp. 849-856.

Other Publications

  1. Cooke, A. J. (1997) " Modelling of Clogging in Laboratory Column Experiments Conducted with Synthetic Landfill Leachate",M.E.Sc Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Western Ontario.
  1. Rowe, R. K., Cooke, A. J., Rittmann, B. E. and Fleming, I. R. (1997a) " Some Considerations in Numerical Modelling of Leachate Collection System Clogging", Lead Lecture, 6th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics, Montreal, July, pp 277-282.

  2. Rowe, R. K., Fleming, I. R., Armstrong, M. D., Cooke, A. J., Cullimore, R. D., Rittmann, B. E., Bennett, P., and Longstaffe, F. J. (1997b) "Recent Advances in Understanding the Clogging of Leachate Collection Systems", Proceedings Sardinia '97, Sixth International Landfill Symposium, S. Margherita di Pula, Italy, October 1997.

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