Abstract
The objective of the study was to develop a low cost and environmentally friendly liner system for a landfill bioreactor to harness energy from waste. The landfill bioreactor test cell was constructed and evaluated for performance under dry tropical conditions of Sri Lanka. The research was carried out from March 2009 to September 2010. The clay-waste polyethylene-clay composite liner system was developed and permeability was tested. The permeability values of the liner under both saturated and unsaturated conditions at the high estimated hydraulic head of 86.2 cm were in between 6.3 × 10−8 and 2.6 × 10−8 cm/s. The permeability of the liner under waste filled condition varied between 2.17 × 10−9 and 8.15 × 10−9 cm/s, which satisfies the standard permeability value. Thus, the results were below the minimum requirement at very high estimated leachate head. After loading the test cell, leachate and permeate characteristics were analyzed for 273 days, from January 2010 to September 2010. The study showed the relationships among various parameters including pH, electrical permeability, chemical oxygen demand, biological oxygen demand, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, total solids, volatile solids, total suspended solids and volatile suspended solids. The results of the analysis indicated that there are significant differences in the values of leachate and permeate parameters. The permeate parameters had values very much lower than those of leachate. It reveals that the clay-waste polyethylene-clay composite liner system reduced the concentration of these parameters when the leachate passed through the liner. The biofilm formed in waste polyethylene within the liner may have degraded most of organic materials found in the leachate when it passed through the liner. Therefore, the clay-waste polyethylene-clay composite liner system can be applied for full scale landfill bioreactors, particularly for Asian developing countries, due to better performance and more environmentally friendly characteristics.
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