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Treatment of Sanitary Landfill Leachate : Biological Treatment

H.-J. Ehrig

Instittit für Stadtbauwesen, TU Braunschweig, Postfach 3329, 3300 Braunschweig, West Germany

In most cases leachates from sanitary landfills are highly polluted (COD, BOD5, ammonium) and must be treated before discharge. Treatment experiments with aerated lagoons, activated sludge plants and rotating biological contactors in laboratory and technical scale are described. Treatment with full degradation of organics and oxydation of ammonium (nitrification) are possible with attention to some special problems of leaching treatment such as high ammonium concentrations, the BOD5/N-ratio, precipitation of inorganics, cooling, foaming etc. From aerated lagoons BOD5-effluents ≤ 50 mg l-1 could be obtained at volumetric loadings ≤ 20 g BOD5 m -3 day-1. Shorter retention times in activated sludge plants result in lower BOD levels (≤ 25 mg l-1) at loading rates between 0.02 and 0.05 kg BOD5 kg MLSS- 1 day-1 provided that the BOD5/N-ratio > 1. In all other cases the dimension parameter for activated sludge plants is ammonium load ≤ 0.03 kg N kg MLSS-1 day- 1. Similar results are obtained with rotating biological contactors also with ammonium as the critical loading value, here as an area loading ≤2 g N m-2 day-1. In all cases ammonium is the dominate parameter and careful operation is necessary because nitrification is a very sensitive process. Operation problems could result in serious water pollution problems with discharges of high concentrations of ammonium or nitrite.

Key Words: Municipal solid waste • sanitary landfill • leachate • pollution potential • biological treatment • nitrification • aerated lagoon • activated sludge • rotating biological contactor

Waste Management & Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, 131-152 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X8400200116
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