The goal of this project was to test the efficiency of a full-scale air stripping process designed to remove ammonia and total nitrogen from landfill leachate at the Shanghai Laogang Solid Waste Disposal Facility, Ltd., located in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Leachate samples were collected before and after air stripping, and tested for quality. Overall, air stripping reduced ammonia by 4 -- 15%, total nitrogen by 0 -- 29%, and chemical oxygen demand by 27 -- 42%. The air stripping process was then redesigned by increasing the treatment time and treatment volume to remove 70 -- 80% of ammonia from landfill leachate.

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Creator

• Blauvelt, Ashley L

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031309-173610

Advisor

• Plummer, Jeanine D.
• Zhou, H Susan

Year

• 2009

Center

• Shanghai, China Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Date created

• 2009-03-13

Location

• Shanghai

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Environmental Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-12-27