Reverse Osmosis is the most widely used method for treating municipal solid waste landfill leachates, since it produces a permeate in compliance with reject requirements. However, the efficiency of this process at the industrial scale is limited mainly because of membrane fouling and the high osmotic pressures involved. Although lime precipitation is traditionally used to eliminate the temporary hardness of water by decarbonation, it has also been shown to be highly efficient in removing humic substances which are known to have strong fouling potential towards membranes. Our objective is to study the lime/leachate physico-chemistry, in order to determine the potential of the lime precipitation as pre-treatment for reverse osmosis. The results show that the lime treatment makes it possible (i) to act efficiently on the inorganic fraction of leachates through a decarbonation mechanism which entails massive precipitation of the carbonates under the form of CaCO3, (ii) to eliminate by co-precipitation the high Molecular Weight (MW) organic macromolecules (>50,000 g.mol−1) such as humic acids, and (iii) to generate a stable residue that can be easily stored at a landfill. The reverse osmosis step will be facilitated through significant reduction of the osmotic pressures and prevention of membrane fouling.
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February 01 2009
Lime treatment of stabilized leachates
S. Renou;
1Département de Technologie Nucléaire, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique de Cadarache, St Paul-lez-Durance Cedex 13108, France E-mail: [email protected]
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S. Poulain;
S. Poulain
1Département de Technologie Nucléaire, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique de Cadarache, St Paul-lez-Durance Cedex 13108, France E-mail: [email protected]
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J. G. Givaudan;
J. G. Givaudan
1Département de Technologie Nucléaire, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique de Cadarache, St Paul-lez-Durance Cedex 13108, France E-mail: [email protected]
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C. Sahut;
C. Sahut
1Département de Technologie Nucléaire, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique de Cadarache, St Paul-lez-Durance Cedex 13108, France E-mail: [email protected]
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P. Moulin
P. Moulin
2Département en Procédés Propres et Environnement (DPPE-UMR 6181), Université Paul Cézanne, Europôle de l'Arbois, BP. 80, Bâtiment Laennec, Hall C, Aix en Provence Cedex 04 13545, France E-mail: [email protected]
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Water Sci Technol (2009) 59 (4): 673–685.
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S. Renou, S. Poulain, J. G. Givaudan, C. Sahut, P. Moulin; Lime treatment of stabilized leachates. Water Sci Technol 1 February 2009; 59 (4): 673–685. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.014
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