In connection with the admittance of the EC-directive (99/31/EC) in Swedish politic, through the constitution of waste depositing (2001:512) at year 2001, the rules about management the landfills and leachates tightened. At the landfill Vissberga in the municipality of Hallsberg, a leachate treatment plant was constructed just a year thereafter. This treatment plant consisted of an aerated pond with a following land treatment and a willow cultivation to replace the land treatment during the summer. In this case the parameters, which were estimated as the most important to reduce, were iron and nitrogen. The iron would react with the oxygen-rich water in the aerated pond and precipitate to ferric-hydroxide and than settle in a calm zone of the pond. The rest of it would be reduced by filtration in the land treatment. The elimination of nitrogen would happened by two biological processes. The first one was intended to be in the aerated pond, where ammonium ions would oxidise to nitrate by the process called nitrification. The established nitrate would then be transformed to nitrogen gas by a denitrification in the land treatment and be emitted to the air. Unfortunately the reduction has not been desirable, why the main objective of this thesis is to quantify the problem and identify the limitations of the plant by describing the processes involved and find out which factors that affects them, in particular the impact of the temperature. This was executed by a literature study about the processes and by studying results from analysis that were obtained both from earlier samples and from samples which were done during this thesis. At the end it appears that the plant was overloaded and that this probably depends on incorrect estimates of the leachate water flow, done during the dimensioning of the plant. Due to the high flow the ferric-hydroxide can’t be settled and the nitrifyers don’t have enough time to reduce the nitrate. One part of the objective was to found out in which degradation phase the landfill are for the moment, to see what changes is to expect in the combination of the leachate water in the future. However, it was difficult to say with certainty, due to the circumstances that the landfill currently is in the methane phase and the knowledge of the next phase, the humic phase, is very limited because very few landfills has now days reached this phase. The phase determination was made by comparisons between composition of the leachate water of Vissberga and leachate water from the literature. An interview study was also done during this thesis, where people from the Counties Agency in the county of Örebro and Västmanland, the municipality of Uppsala and the Environmental Protection Agency were attended. The question was: Which new requirements that might be claimed at leachate water treatment in a foreseeable future?
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-133902 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Sohlman, Linda |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UPTEC W, 1401-5765 ; 10 031 |
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