Florida Researchers Looking at Leachate Treatment Technology About to Launch in Malaysia.
A Los-Angeles, Calif.-based developer of wastewater treatment technology is taking its proprietary system to a Malaysian landfill to treat leachate.
As OriginClear prepares to launch the full-scale operation in July, Florida Atlantic University is testing the technology to see how it might work in U.S. landfills as wastewater treatment plants are increasingly challenged to handle the heavy contamination loads presented by landfill leachate.
“From there we developed a process with many applications including landfill leachate treatment.
[The way it works is] when water is running between electrodes the technology generates oxygen species that degrade organic contamination.” The system includes two modules, one called electro water separation (EWS) and another called advanced oxidation (AOx).
In Malaysia the EWS:AOx system will be retrofit to an existing treatment system that generates between 100 and 400 cubic meters of water per day that has not met the government’s discharge requirements.
“The processing cost of landfill leachate treatment there is about $10.00 per cubic meter.
“We want to test the process for removal efficiency [removal of COD, ammonia heavy metals and other contaminants].
In China, OriginClear’s system removed more than 75 percent of COD in 15 minutes.
We could partner with OriginClear to create the engineering design for a landfill anywhere in the country,” says Meeroff.