Leachate from market refuse and biomethanation study |
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Authors: | S N Mukherjee Sunil Kumar |
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Institution: | (1) Civil Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India;(2) Solid Waste Management Division, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur, 440 020, India |
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Abstract: | The market place is considered to be an important centre of daily life of campus community. In India, as in Europe and the
USA, other forms of shopping have emerged significantly and now predominate, for instance department stores and supermarkets.
Though, it is suffered from poor waste management, but the place could be a potential source for obtaining non-conventional
energy. The present study examined the quality of market waste management of the Indian Institute of Technology Campus along
with the feasibility of biogas production from leachate generated in the waste. Solid wastes from different storage locations
of the market place were collected and analyzed. The characteristics of solid wastes were found to be degradable in nature.
The wastes, composed of 85% of vegetable origin, were placed in a container and water was added to to generate leachate. The
self-purification efficiency of leachate was also studied in the Indian environment and compared with research findings in
the USA under an identical moisture application rate. Leachate characterization was investigated both under saturated and
submerged conditions. The treatability of leachate was studied in a laboratory-scale up-flow anaerobic filter with hollow
burnt clay rings as packing media. It was observed that 4,000–6,000 mg/l would be the optimum range of inlet chemical oxygen
demand (COD) concentration for leachate treatment because of the inhibitory effect of ammonia, sulphide, volatile fatty acids
and toxic metals in high concentrations at higher strengths of leachate. The gas production rate was found to be at a maximum
at 38°C and containing 70–75% methane. From experimental data, it was revealed that 83% COD was removed with input COD concentration
of 5,475 mg/l at 2 days hydraulic retention time with biogas yield coefficients of 0.61. The present study also investigated
the removal efficiency of chloride, ammonia, sulphide and nitrate. |
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Keywords: | Anarobic filter Biogas Leachate VFA COD BOD |
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