Abstract
Regional sanitary landfills and waste disposal centers are the strategic commitment in regard to municipal waste management in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order to meet the environmental conditions, the obligation for each landfill is the treatment of leachate and disposal of landfill gas. Leachate from sanitary landfills is highly polluted wastewater, which changes its composition and quantity over time. Selection of an adequate leachate treatment technology is the first step in addressing the environmental impacts of leachate. At the Sarajevo Sanitary Landfill, in the period 2008–2011, a plant for the treatment of leachate started operation based on Membrane-Bio-Reactor technology (MBR) as a chosen technology. Due to a number of circumstances and malfunctions, the plant operation was stopped already soon after commissioning. The current situation at the Smiljevići Landfill is such that the landfill does not meet all of the technical requirements necessary to limit the negative environmental impact from the site. Leachate management continued to be one of the major issues at the landfill site since the leachate treatment plant (LTP) is out of function. There is a significant impact of leachate to the recipient (Lepenica stream). In 2016, the Government of Kanton Sarajevo (KS) started a five-year project for the reconstruction of the sanitary landfill and all associated facilities. One of the planned tasks is the reconstruction of the leachate treatment plant. For this purpose, a pilot plant was installed in 2018 to determine the composition of leachate and also to test a state of the art MBR - RO technology. The commissioning and related effects of the pilot plant for the treatment of the specific Smiljevići leachate in the period April–July 2018 are presented in this paper.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Serdarevic, A.: Environmental damage assessment, waste management and overview of the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Ibrahimbegovic, A., Zlatar, M. (eds.) Damage Assessment and Reconstruction after War or Natural Disaster, pp. 357–381. Springer, Dordrecht (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2386-5_14
Mayr, B., Garstenauer, T.: Final Test Report and Scale-up MBR-RO for landfill Smiljevici – Sarajevo, EnviCare® Engineering GmbH (2018)
Serdarević, A., Tuhtar, D., Milašinović, Z., Babić, F.: Membrane filtration for the landfill Leachate treatment- Case study of the pilot plant in Sarajevo. In: Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium (Proceedings), Cagliary, Italy, p. 8, 1–5 October 2007
Serdarevic, A.: Landfill Leachate management—Control and treatment. In: Hadžikadić, M., Avdaković, S. (eds.) IAT 2017. LNNS, vol. 28, pp. 618–632. Springer, Cham (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71321-2_54
Ehrig, H.-J.: Leachate quality. In: Christensen, T.H., Cossu, R., Stegmann, R. (eds.) Sanitary Landfilling: Process, Technology and Environmental Impact, pp. 213–230. Academic Press, London (1989)
Serdarević, A., Kralj, M.P.: Čiščenje Izcednih Voda Odlagališča Komunalnih Odpadkov - Izzivi Pri Iskanju Optimalne Rešitve. Ekolist 14, 12–17 (2017)
Mayr, B.: Membranbioreaktortechnik in Österreich - Aktuelle Projekte. In: Rautenbach, R., et al.(eds.) Begleitbuch zur 3. Aachener Tagung Siedlungswasserwirtschaft und Verfahrenstechnik, Klenkes Druck, vol. 2, pp. 8–9, Aachen/Deutschland (2000)
Mayr, B., Garstenauer, T.: Membrane bioreactor as polishing step in the treatment of galvanic wastewater. In: FILTECH Conference Program, Cologne, Germany, vol. 10, pp. 22–24 (2019)
Anthonisen, A.C., Loehr, R.C., Prakasam, T.B.S., Srinath, E.G.: Inhibition of nitrification by ammonia and nitrous acid. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 48, 835–852 (1976)
Mayr, B.: Hochleistungsbiologie und Membrantrenntechnik zur Abwasserreinigung: Fallstudie Deponiesickerwasser. Österr. Wasserwirtschaft 46(7/8), 195 (1994)
Kjeldsen, P., Barlaz, M.A., Rooker, A.P., Baun, A., Ledin, A., Christensen, T.H.: Present and long term composition of MSW landfill leachate: a review. Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32(4), 297–336 (2002)
Kruempelbeck, I., Ehrig, J.G.: Long-term behaviour of municipal solid waste landfills in Germany. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, 4–8 October. Cagliari, Italy (1999)
Mayr, B., Novak, S., Horvat, P., Gaisch, F., Narodoslawsky, M., Moser, A.: Purification of Landfill leachates by means of combined biological and membrane separation treatment. Chem. Biochem. Eng. Q. 9(1), 39–45 (1995)
Google maps: Bird view of the sanitary landfill in Sarajevo Canton. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8665583,18.3386654,905m/data=!3m1!1e3. Accessed 15 Feb 2021
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Serdarević, A., Garstenauer, T., Mayr, B. (2022). Test Operation of the MBR Pilot Plant for Leachate Treatment at the Sarajevo Sanitary Landfill. In: Ademović, N., Mujčić, E., Akšamija, Z., Kevrić, J., Avdaković, S., Volić, I. (eds) Advanced Technologies, Systems, and Applications VI. IAT 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90055-7_37
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90055-7_37
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-90054-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-90055-7
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)