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Treatment of hazardous leachate from landfill using ultrasound/H2O2 system

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The necessity of leachates treatment from the waste landfills by new ways becomes increasingly more marked. Leachates contain toxic ingredients such as pesticides, dyes, and hormonal agents, which necessarily need to be removed from the environment. It is because of their genotoxicity and estrogenic activity. The main aim of this article is to point out the possibility of using ultrasound in removing ammonia from hazardous landfills leachate. In addition to ultrasound degradation, the possibility of addition of the H2O2 was also studied. System ultrasound/H2O2 was proved to be more effective in removing ammonia and organic pollution than ultrasound alone. Tested leachate contains 3.20 g/dm3 N-NH4 +, 15 mg/dm3 CN−, and 4.4 g/dm3 chemical oxygen demand (COD). We achieved degradation efficiency of 63% of ammonia which means final concentration of 1.12 g/dm3 N-NH4 +, after using pretreatment with the most efficient system H2O2 and ultrasound. COD removal efficiency was 56% (1.95 g/dm3 COD). We achieved the value 10.2 mg/dm3 for cyanide, which means 65%.

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Acknowledgements

This research was conducted with support of the Slovak research and development agency under Contract No. APVV 037212 and the Science Grant Agency of the Slovak Ministry of Education (VEGA) Project Nos. 1/0631/15 and 1/0543/15.

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  1. Institute of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Jozef Tichý, Igor Bodík & Tomáš Mackuľak

  2. Institute of Laboratory Research on Geomaterials, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Alžbeta Takáčová

  3. VÚRUP a.s., Vlčie hrdlo, P.O. BOX 50, 820 03, Bratislava 23, Slovak Republic

    Alžbeta Takáčová

  4. Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Miroslava Smolinská

  5. Department of Inorganic Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Miroslav Gál & Marianna Czölderová

  6. Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 11, 810 05, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Štefan Stanko, Michal Holubec & Jaroslav Hrudka

  7. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Andrea Vojs-Staňová

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Tichý, J., Takáčová, A., Smolinská, M. et al. Treatment of hazardous leachate from landfill using ultrasound/H2O2 system. Monatsh Chem 148, 563–570 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-017-1919-7

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