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Sustainable treatment of landfill leachate
- Source :
- Applied Water Science. 5:113-126
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2014.
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Abstract
- Landfill leachate is a complex liquid that contains excessive concentrations of biodegradable and non-biodegradable products including organic matter, phenols, ammonia nitrogen, phosphate, heavy metals, and sulfide. If not properly treated and safely disposed, landfill leachate could be an impending source to surface and ground water contamination as it may percolate throughout soils and subsoils, causing adverse impacts to receiving waters. Lately, various types of treatment methods have been proposed to alleviate the risks of untreated leachate. However, some of the available techniques remain complicated, expensive and generally require definite adaptation during process. In this article, a review of literature reported from 2008 to 2012 on sustainable landfill leachate treatment technologies is discussed which includes biological and physical–chemical techniques, respectively.
Details
- ISSN :
- 21905495 and 21905487
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Water Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5733f33e6527073b939c4ed28447c892
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13201-014-0177-7