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Natural zeolites as a reactive barrier for landfill leachate treatment

Written by Verica Vučičić on .

                                  NAZELLT IP-11-2013-4981                   
Financed by Croatian Science Foundation


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  • Abstract
  • Published results
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  • Collaborators


    Principal investigator

    Name and surname

    		 Marina Trgo, associate professor
    Academic title

    		Doctor of Science, (PhD of technical sciences, chemical engineering)
    Year and institution

    of PhD obtained

    		 2003, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University of Split
    Address

    		 Teslina 10/V 21000 Split
    Phone

    		 +385 21 329 454
    Fax

    		 +385 21 329 461
    E-mail

    		 mtrgo@ktf-split.hr
    Personal web page

    		http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=218460
    Citizenship

    		 Croatian
    Date and place of birth

    		 1972, Split, Croatia

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  • ABSTRACT

    Project summary:

    Limited reserves of fresh water are a serious global problem. For that reason the main objective is to preserve the quality of all available sources of drinking water. Among all the threats to water in nature, leachate landfills are most dangerous because of their complex chemical composition and continuous uncontrolled pollution of groundwater. Processes and methods of preventing the spread of pollution into groundwater and leachate treatment are a challenge for many researchers. This proposal should be a contribution to the landfill leachate treatment using natural zeolite as a reactive barrier. This material is available in nature, environmentally compatible, thermally and chemically stable, and possesses adsorption and ion exchange properties. Depending of the surface charge, zeolites can uptake organic and inorganic positive and negative species. The desired surface charge can be achieved by chemical modification using different methods at a controlled pH value. Modified zeolites should have significantly higher removal capacities and selectivity towards pollutants contained in the landfill leachate. These wastewaters are highly concentrated, have the most complex possible composition, contain low biodegradable organic matter (halogenated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons and phenols), inorganic ions (Cl-, NH4+, SO42-,NO3-, NO2-,PO43-), and heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Mn). Many of these components have shown excellent removal from modal solutions onto zeolite; therefore investigations will start with batch studies, continue in lab-scale fixed bed columns, and finally in scale-up and multi stage columns filled with different modified zeolites. The multi stage column performance should be carried out with real leachate collected from the regulated landfills in the Dalmatian region. The exhausted zeolite, saturated with organic and inorganic pollutants, can be thermally treated and disposed of in nature, or solidified into the cement matrix.



  • PUBLISHED RESULTS

    Nuić, Ivona; Sulić, Anka; Trgo, Marina; Vukojević Medvidović, Nediljka. Influence of the flow rate on lead and zinc removal from a binary solution on the fixed bed of natural zeolite // 15th Ružička Days - Book of Abstracts / Šubarić, Drago (ur.). Osijek, Prehrambeno-tehnološki fakultet u Osijeku, 2014. 129-129 (poster, international revision, adstract).

    Nuić, Ivona; Trgo, Marina; Perić, Jelena; Vukojević Medvidović, Nediljka. Uptake of cepted for publicationPb and Zn from a binary solution onto different fixed bed depths of natural zeolite - the BDST model approach. // ClayMminerals. (2015) (accepted for publication).

  • CONTACT

    Marina Trgo      Phone

    		 +385 21 329 454
    Fax

    		 +385 21 329 461
    E-mail

    		 mtrgo@ktf-split.hr