An overview of heavily polluted landfill leachate treatment using food waste as an alternative and renewable source of activated carbon

• Main Authors: Shehzad, A., Bashir, M.J.K., Sethupathi, S., Lim, J.-W.
• Format: Article
• Published: Institution of Chemical Engineers 2015
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84948187102&doi=10.1016%2fj.psep.2015.09.005&partnerID=40&md5=a98c95eae98600186b03fc1319d745e8; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/31665/

Landfill leachate is a complicated refractory wastewater which contains huge amount of organic compounds and ammonia. Recently, the adsorption technology exploiting on activated carbon has gained promising importance in the treatment of landfill leachate due to its simplicity in design and low prepa...