Biological treatment of leachate from a Superfund site

Technical Report · Wed Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5859096

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

Studies were completed on treating a leachate from New Lyme, Ohio. The leachate was transported to Cincinnati, Ohio, where a pilot-sized rotating biological contactor (RBC) was used for a treatment evaluation. The biomass was developed on the RBC discs with primary effluent from the City of Cincinnati's Mill Creek Sewage Treatment Facility. Experiments were then conducted to determine the effectiveness of treating a hazardous waste leachate and to provide information on the following: the rate of organics removal; the final effluent quality; the fate of priority pollutants and specific organic compounds; and the loss of volatiles via stripping in the RBC. The paper reports on the results from these experiments and the applicability of an RBC to treat a hazardous-waste leachate from a Superfund site.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (USA). Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5859096
• Report Number(s): PB-89-197768/XAB; EPA-600/J-89/001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BIODEGRADATION
BIOMASS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DECOMPOSITION
DIMENSIONS
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
FEDERAL REGION V
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
LAWS
LEACHATES
MATERIALS
MIXTURES
NORTH AMERICA
OHIO
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PILOT PLANTS
POLLUTION LAWS
REMOVAL
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SEWAGE
SOLUTIONS
SUPERFUND
THICKNESS
USA
WASTES