Stringfellow leachate treatment with RBC (rotating biological contactor)

Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5273401

Opatken, E J; Howard, H K; Bond, J J

A study was conducted with a rotating biological contactor (RBC) for treatment of leachate from the Stringfellow hazardous-waste site in Riverside County, California. The leachate was transported from California to Cincinnati, where a pilot-sized RBC was installed at the U.S. EPA's Testing and Evaluation (TandE) Facility. A series of kinetic runs were made with primary effluent from the City of Cincinnati's Mill Creek Sewage Treatment Plant to develop a biomass on the disks and to obtain a standard kinetic removal rate. These runs were then followed with Stringfellow leachate experiments that included operations at various ratios of leachate to primary effluent, operations at 100% leachate, and operations to increase the percentage removal of dissolved organics. The paper reports on the results from these experiments and the effectiveness of an RBC to adequately treat leachate from the Stringfellow hazardous-waste site.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (USA). Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5273401
• Report Number(s): PB-88-170105/XAB; EPA-600/D-88/013
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
DISPERSIONS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
LEACHATES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MIXTURES
POLLUTION
PROCESSING
REMOVAL
SOLUTIONS
TOXICITY
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING