Wastewater disposal to landfill-sites: A synergistic solution for centralized management of olive mill wastewater and enhanced production of landfill gas

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2013-10-15

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Diamantis, Vasileios
Bayramoğlu, Tuba Hande
Aivasidis, Alexandros
Verstraete, Willy
Voudrias, Evangelos

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The present paper focuses on a largely unexplored field of landfill-site valorization in combination with the construction and operation of a centralized olive mill wastewater (OMW) treatment facility. The latter consists of a wastewater storage lagoon, a compact anaerobic digester operated all year round and a landfill-based final disposal system. Key elements for process design, such as wastewater pretreatment, application method and rate, and the potential effects on leachate quantity and quality, are discussed based on a comprehensive literature review. Furthermore, a case-study for eight (8) olive mill enterprises generating 8700 m(3) of wastewater per year, was conceptually designed in order to calculate the capital and operational costs of the facility (transportation, storage, treatment, final disposal). The proposed facility was found to be economically self-sufficient, as long as the transportation costs of the OMW were maintained at <= 4.0 (sic)/m(3). Despite that EU Landfill Directive prohibits wastewater disposal to landfills, controlled application, based on appropriately designed pre-treatment system and specific loading rates, may provide improved landfill stabilization and a sustainable (environmentally and economically) solution for effluents generated by numerous small- and medium-size olive mill enterprises dispersed in the Mediterranean region.

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Environmental Engineering, Waste Management and Disposal, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, General Medicine

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37311

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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.05.051

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Department of Environmental Engineering, Article

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V. Diamantis, T. H. Bayramoğlu, A. Aivasidis, W. Verstraete, and E. Voudrias, “Wastewater disposal to landfill-sites: A synergistic solution for centralized management of olive mill wastewater and enhanced production of landfill gas,” JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, pp. 427–434, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37311.