title: The effect of sanitary landfill leachate aging on the biological treatment and assessment of photoelectrooxidation as a pre-treatment process.
abstract: The sanitary landfill leachate is a dark liquid, of highly variable composition, with recalcitrant features that hamper conventional biological treatment. The physical-chemical characteristics of the leachate along the landfill aging, as well as their effects on the efficiency of the conventional treatment, were evaluated at this paper. The feasibility of photoelectrooxidation process as an alternative technique for treatment of landfill leachates was also determined. Photoelectrooxidation experiments were conducted in a bench-scale reactor. Analysis of the raw leachate revealed many critical parameters demonstrating that the recalcitrance of leachate tends to increase with time, directly influencing the decline in efficiency of the conventional treatment currently employed. The effects of current density and lamp power were investigated. Using a 400 W power lamp and a current density of 31.5 mA cm(-)(2), 53% and 61% efficiency for the removal of ammoniacal nitrogen and chemical oxygen demand were respectively achieved by applying photoelectrooxidation process. With the removal of these pollutants, downstream biological treatment should be improved. These results demonstrate that photoelectrooxidation is a feasible technique for the treatment of sanitary landfill leachate, even considering this effluent's high resistance to treatment.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS), R. Gal. João Manoel, 50, CEP 90010-030 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gabriel Timm
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Setor 4, Prédio 74, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giacobbo
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS), R. Gal. João Manoel, 50, CEP 90010-030 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Edson Abel
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: dos Santos Chiaramonte
authors.affiliation: Universidade FEEVALE, ICET, RS 239, 2755, CEP 93352-000 Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marco Antônio Siqueira
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Setor 4, Prédio 74, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meneguzzi
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Setor 4, Prédio 74, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: amb@ufrgs.br.
authors.forename: Andréa Moura
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bernardes
mesh_terms: D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010782:Photolysis; D013997:Time Factors; D064091:Waste Disposal Facilities; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
keywords: Effluent degradation; Photoelectrooxidation; Recalcitrant leachate treatment; Sanitary landfill leachate