Kinetic Analysis and Treatment of Compost Leachate Using Data from a Plant-Scale Hybrid Anaerobic Reactor
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 7
Abstract
Compost leachate is one of the most strongly polluting wastewaters, which is found in significantly large amounts. The major objective of this research was to study the biological treatment of compost leachate in an upflow–downflow hybrid anaerobic reactor, located in a compost production plant designed to process of urban solid waste. A range of models based on different kinetics have been tested using the experimental data from measurements taken from the hybrid anaerobic reactor. The substrate removal using the second-order rate () was found to be 22.3 day–1. The rate constant () for maximum removal and the constant () for the saturation value for the Stover–Kincannon model was determined to be 90.9 and , respectively, which resulted in the best fitting of this model to the actual compost leachate plant data.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 146 • Issue 7 • July 2020
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Received: Jul 24, 2018
Accepted: Jan 9, 2020
Published online: Apr 29, 2020
Published in print: Jul 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Sep 29, 2020
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