Behandling av lakvatten med kemiska oxidationsmedel för att delvis bryta ned oönskade organiska förening : en studie utförd vid Hovgårdens avfallsanläggning i Uppsala

Abstract: A renewed application for environmental permit for the Hovgården landfill in Uppsala shall be submitted before December 2004, therefore the municipality of Uppsala needs improved knowledge of the contents, mostly organic compounds in the leachate and they also want to find a method to minimize the emissions of these compounds. The purpose of this study was to find a practical and economical method based on chemical oxidation using oxidants. The oxidants investigated are Fenton's reagent, hydrogen peroxide, Oxypro, potassium permanganate and potassium persulfate. The study was made on untreated leachate and leachate that has been treated in an aerated dam followed by sedimentation dams collected from the Hovgården landfill, and alson on sludge water from sludge storage cells. The effects of the five oxidants have been established by analysing the UV absorbance at the wavelengths 253,7 nm and 260,0 nm at different pH values. The UV absorbance was used to indicate the amount of aromatic hydrocarbons in the water. Also analyses of iron and manganese were done after the experiments with potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide and Fenton's reagent. The results showed a reduction of the UV absorbance in the leachate when potassium permanganate or Fenton's reagent demands a pH value about 4 which means that this method is not practical to use and not economically interesting. Further studies have therefore been concentrated on using potassium permanganate.