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| Author(s): |
Ronan Cleber Contrera
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2003-05-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Valdir Schalch;
Jorge Hamada;
José Alberto Domingues Rodrigues
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| Advisor: | Valdir Schalch |
| Abstract | |
Even today, only few Brazilian cities give adequate destiny to urban solid wastes. The waste disposal at sanitary landfills is currently one of the most economical and adequated way of waste disposal. The high quantity of organic matter in domiciliary wastes, the waste own moisture, the rainwater infiltration and the microbiological activities lead to the leachate generation into the landfill. This liquid has a high chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration, and is a potential pollutant. This work evaluated the viability and the efficiency of the use of a horizontal anaerobic immobilized sludge reactor (HAIS reactor) for leachate treatment collected from Bauru-SP and Rio Claro-SP landfills. The reactor, in pilot scale, was constructed using a 3,0 m of length and 14,5 cm internal diameter PVC pipe, with a length-diameter ratio (L/D) of approximately 20, and an approximately 50 L volume. The reactor had gas collectors and intermediate samplers in the direction of its length, in positions corresponding to L/D equal to 4, 8, 12 and 16. For immobilization support it was utilized polyurethane foam with 20 kg.m-3 of density in cube form, with side of approximately 10 mm. The leachate was collected and stored in a cold chamber at 5ºC and the reactor was maintained at controlled temperature in a chamber at 30ºC. Operating the system with the leachate from Bauru-SP during eight weeks, there was no biomass acclimatization due, probably, to high NH3 concentrations. When utilizing the leachate from Rio Claro-SP the system had, initially, low efficiencies, even with a hydraulic retention time of 25 days. But after changes in the operation strategy, changing the leachate by one other collected in the same place, the system reacted very well, obtaining efficiencies of approximately 80% in terms of COD removal, with a hydraulic retention time of 2,5 days and an inlet COD at the range of 5.000 mg/L. (AU) | |