Mobility of organic and inorganic constituents from energy and combustion-related wastes under codisposal conditions

Technical Report · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5960693

Maskarinec, M P; Francis, C W; Goyert, J C

The criteria for determining toxicity of a solid waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) are the levels of NIPDW contaminants as determined using the extraction procedure (EPA-EP). This procedure is predicted on a scenario of disposal of the solid waste in a municipal landfill, resulting in contact with an acidic leaching medium. The scenario includes a 95/5 municipal waste/industrial waste ratio. The experimental definition of the leaching rates of various contaminants under the conditions of this scenario is the object of this work. The experimental design included the use of large scale lysimeters (1.8 M in diameter x 3.6 M height) packed with 1.5 metric tons of municipal waste. A flow rate of -6.5 1/day of distilled water was added to the lysimeters for the generation of municipal waste leachate (MWL). The MWL was used to leach a variety of industrial wastes, including resource recovery ashes, an API separator sludge/incinerator ash mixture, and a coking plant wastewater treatment sludge. The resulting leachates were analyzed for both inorganic and organic constituents. Inorganic constituents showed two distinct types of leaching behavior. Freely soluble elements (B, Na, Ca, etc.) gave leaching curves which showed exponential declines. Acid-soluble elements (Ni, Zn) eluted as peaks as the pH of the leachate decreased. Organic constituents gave leaching curves which were dependent on solubility: either an exponential decline (freely soluble compounds) or a relatively flat curve at or near the solubility limit. The availability of this data base has allowed the development of a laboratory extraction procedure for the prediction of contaminant migration in municipal landfills. 6 references, 4 figures, 3 tables.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Science Applications International Corp., Oak Ridge, TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5960693
• Report Number(s): CONF-841157-87; ON: DE85008137
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACENAPHTHENE
ALKALINE EARTH METALS
AROMATICS
ASHES
CALCIUM
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CONDENSED AROMATICS
CRESOLS
DATA
DISPERSIONS
DISSOLUTION
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GROUND DISPOSAL
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INFORMATION
LEACHATES
LEACHING
MANAGEMENT
METALS
MIXTURES
MUNICIPAL WASTES
NAPHTHALENE
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PHENANTHRENE
PHENOL
PHENOLS
PYROLYSIS PRODUCTS
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
RESIDUES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SLUDGES
SOLUTIONS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES