Treatment of Landfill Leachates with Combined Acidification/Coagulation and the Fe0/H2O2 Process
Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 20, 00-653 Warsaw, Poland
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Water 2019, 11(2), 194; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020194
Received: 21 December 2018
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Revised: 15 January 2019
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Accepted: 21 January 2019
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Published: 23 January 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Oxidation Technologies in Industrial Wastewater Treatment)
One of the major environmental concerns associated with waste disposal is the large amount of generated landfill leachates (LL), which are considered a type of wastewater with a complex composition. There is an urgent need to find an effective LL treatment method. LL were subjected to pretreatment followed by the Fe0/H2O2 process. Pretreatment efficiency was coagulation at pH 6.0 >> coagulation at pH 9.0 > acidification at pH 3.0. Coagulation at pH 6.0 in an optimal Fe3+ dose of 1000 mg/L decreased total organic carbon (TOC) from the initial concentration of 1061 mg/L to 491 mg/L while acidification to pH 3.0 decreased TOC to 824 mg/L. After acidification, the Fe0/H2O2 process with 8000/9200 mg/L Fe0/H2O2 reagent doses decreased TOC to 499 mg/L after a processing time of 60 min. Performance of the Fe0/H2O2 process after coagulation at pH 6.0 for optimal Fe0/H2O2 8000/5540 mg/L reagent doses decreased TOC to 268 mg/L (75% TOC removal). Treatment of landfill leachates with combined process coagulation and Fe0/H2O2 also increased their susceptibility to biodegradation, expressed as the biochemical oxygen demand/chemical oxygen demand (BOD5/COD) ratio from 0.13 to 0.43, allowing LL to be considered as susceptible to biodegradation. Fe0/H2O2 process kinetics was described. A statistical analysis confirmed the obtained results. The proposed method can be successfully applied for LL treatment.
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Keywords:
landfill leachates; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; zero-valent iron; biodegradation
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Bogacki, J.; Marcinowski, P.; El-Khozondar, B. Treatment of Landfill Leachates with Combined Acidification/Coagulation and the Fe0/H2O2 Process. Water 2019, 11, 194. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020194
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Bogacki J, Marcinowski P, El-Khozondar B. Treatment of Landfill Leachates with Combined Acidification/Coagulation and the Fe0/H2O2 Process. Water. 2019; 11(2):194. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020194
Chicago/Turabian StyleBogacki, Jan, Piotr Marcinowski, and Balkess El-Khozondar. 2019. "Treatment of Landfill Leachates with Combined Acidification/Coagulation and the Fe0/H2O2 Process" Water 11, no. 2: 194. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020194
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