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Treatment of Solid Waste Leachate by Electrocoagulation Technology
Treatment of Solid Waste Leachate by Electrocoagulation Technology
Treat abilit y St udy of Leachat e by Elect rocoagulat ion - Iron Elect rode
IJSRD - Int ernat ional Journal for Scient ific Research and Development
T REAT MENT OF SUGAR INDUST RY WAST EWAT ER USING ELECT ROCOAGULAT ION T ECHNIQUE
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Abstract
This paper presents, treatment of solid waste leachate by Electrocoagulation (EC) technique using aluminum electrodes. The sample
of leachate was collected from Bagalkot Municipal solid waste (MSW) site. The effects of process variables such as pH, applied cell
voltage, and operating time were investigated on COD and turbidity removal. The EC process was carried out in a batch reactor of
1 liter capacity and samples of 750 ml were taken out for batch at 05, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 minutes of operation. Results
obtained from the experiments showed that COD and turbidity removal was strongly influenced by the initial pH. The highest COD
and turbidity removal efficiency of 95.8% and 96.6% were obtained at an applied cell voltage of for 9V, 40 minutes of operation.
Keywords: Electro coagulation (EC), Leachate, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Turbidity and Aluminum electrode.
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splitting. Metal hydroxides are produced as a result of EC and The study was carried out using leachate collected from
act as coagulant/flocculent for the suspended solids to convert Bagalkot MSW site which is situated 4 km away from the
them into flocs of enough density to be sediment under city centre. The characteristics of the leachate are shown in
gravity. Destabilization of the contaminants, particulate Table1.
suspension, breaking of emulsions, and aggregation of the Table.1 Characteristics of solid waste leachate
destabilized phases to form flocs. The reactions occurring in
an EC process using aluminum anode and cathode can be Particulars Concentration
referred in Eqn. 1, 2 and 3 as represented below. pH 5.8
Color yellow
The oxidation reaction at the anode, Total suspended solids (mg/L) 718
COD (mg/L) 4820
Al→Al+3 + 3e- (1) Conductivity(µS/cm) 2441
Total solids (mg/L) 900
The reduction reaction at the cathode, Turbidity (NTU) 89
Total Dissolved Solids (mg/L) 182
3H2O + 3e- → 1.5 H2 + 3Al- (2)
80 20
9V
70 10
60 0
50 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
40 Time (min)
30 3V
20 6V Fig. 5 Turbidity removal with ET at different voltages (pH:
10 5.8)
9V
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 100
Turbidity removal (%)
Time (min) 90
80
70
Fig. 3 COD removal with ET at different voltages (pH: 4.0) 60
50 3V
100 40
90 30 6V
COD removal (%)
80 20 9V
70 10
60 0
50 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
40 3V Time (min)
30
6V
20 Fig. 6 Turbidity removal with ET at different voltages (pH:
10 9v 4.0)
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Time (min)
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