title: Biodrying of municipal solid waste under different ventilation modes: drying efficiency and aqueous pollution.
abstract: Ventilation is very important during the biodrying process because it affects the biodrying efficiency and secondary pollution. In this study, three ventilation modes-intermittent negative ventilation (IN), continuous negative ventilation (CN) and intermittent positive ventilation (IP)-were used to provide the same amount of total air during biodrying of municipal solid waste (MSW). During the entire 16-day experiment, 68.4%, 68.7% and 67.2% of water contained in the initial waste was removed under IN, CN and IP trials respectively. The ratio of water loss to volatile solid loss was used to evaluate the biodrying efficiency, with values of 5.35, 5.93 and 4.82 being observed for IN, CN and IP trials respectively. The total organic carbon concentrations of the leachate generated from the biodrying of waste were as high as 25,000 mg/l, while those of the condensate were not higher than 3500 mg/l. During the entire process, the average ammonia concentrations of leachate and condensate were 1350 mg/l and 2140 mg/l respectively. From the aspect of biodrying efficiency, continuous negative ventilation was the most preferable ventilation mode for biodrying of MSW, while special care should be taken to prevent aqueous pollution if it is used in a MSW treatment plant.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Li-Ming
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jing-Jing
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Pin-Jing
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000641:Ammonia / Q000032:analysis; D002244:Carbon / Q000032:analysis; D002681:China; D003890:Desiccation; D010100:Oxygen / Q000032:analysis; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D014691:Ventilation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D062611:Solid Waste; D002244:Carbon; D000641:Ammonia; D010100:Oxygen