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KEYWORDS
Solid waste landll;
Leachate;
Treatment;
Chemical coagulant
Abstract Leachate generation is a major problem for municipal solid waste (MSW) landlls and
causes signicant threat to surface water and groundwater. Leachate can be dened as a liquid that
passes through alandll and has extracted dissolved and suspended matter from it. Leachate results
from precipitation entering the landll from moisture that exists in the waste when it is composed.
This paper presents the results of the analyses of leachate treatment from the solid waste landll
located in Borg El Arab landll in Alexandria using an aerobic treatment process which was applied
using the mean of coagulation occulation theory by using coagulant and accelerator substances for
accelerating and improving coagulation and occulation performance.
The main goal of this study is to utilize a natural low cost material as an accelerator additive to
enhance the chemical treatment process using Alum coagulant and the accelerator substances were
Perlite and Bentonite. The performance of the chemical treatment was enhanced using the accelerator substances with 90 mg/l Alum as a constant dose. Perlite gave better performance than the
Bentonite efuent. The removal ratio for conductivity, turbidity, BOD and COD for Perlite was
86.7%, 87.4%, 89.9% and 92.8% respectively, and for Bentonite was 83.5%, 85.0%, 86.5% and
85.0% respectively at the same concentration of 40 mg/l for each.
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Introduction
Sanitary landll is a process in the solid waste management
system. It can be dened as a method of disposing of refuse
on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health
* Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: safaaragheb@yahoo.com (S.M. Raghab),
aabd_elmaguid@yahoo.com (A.M. Abd El Meguid), hegazi100@
yahoo.com (H.A. Hegazi).
Peer review under responsibility of Housing and Building National
Research Center.
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Table 1
Table 3
Composition of MSW.
Parameter
Measured characteristic
Component
Percentage (wt.%)
BOD5
COD
pH
Turbidity
TS
TDS
Conductivity
SO4
Cl
P2O5
NO3
NH4
3400 PPM
8250 PPM
8.24
1400 NTU
29942 PPM
26612 PPM
59400
34712 PPM
6365 PPM
1308 PPM
3.95 PPM
3745 PPM
Organic materials
Unrecyclable Plastics
Unrecyclable materials
Agriculture waste
Total
40
10
30
20
100
Table 2
Physical properties.
Perlite
Bentonite
75
18
4.0
5.0
2.0
1.5
0.5
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.5
0.1
SiO2
Al2O3
Fe2O3
CaO
MgO
Na2O
K2O
SO3
TiO2
P2O5
L.O.I
Fig. 1
53.62
14.47
8.53
1.63
3.96
3.73
0.96
1.15
1.15
0.15
10.46
99.81
Table 4
Parameter
Characteristic
Color
Appearance
Odor
Dark brown
Very small granules
Unfavorable
Fig. 2
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Aerobic treatment process was applied using the mean of coagulation occulation theory by using coagulant and accelerators
substances for accelerating and improving the coagulation and
occulation process.
Materials
Leachate
Leachate is collected from the solid waste landll located in
Borg El Arab landll in Alexandria and the leachate composition will be as given in Tables 1 and 2.
Municipal solid waste (MSW)
The MSW as shown in Fig. 1 is delivered from a landll located in 15th May City. Tables 3 and 4 show the Composition
and the physical properties of MSW.
a steady rate and is then carried through the RBC system for
removal in a clarier [8].
Activated carbon adsorption systems have also been used in
the treatment of landll leachates for the removal of dissolved
organics, however, they are generally considered as one of the
more expensive treatment options and often, must be combined with other treatment technologies to achieve desired results [9].
The most common biological treatment is activated sludge,
which is a suspended-growth process that uses aerobic micro-
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Low cost
adsorbents
Main consistent
Primary
source
Cost LE /
cubic meter
Perlite
Includes any volcanic glass that will expand when heated quickly,
forming a light weight frothy material
Clay generated frequently from the alteration of volcanic ash
Natural
180300
Natural
50100
Bentonite
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Bentonite adsorbent achieved efuent concentration of 210
NTU, 9801, 510 mg/l, 1237.5 mg/l for Turbidity, conductivity, BOD and COD respectively.
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