Open AccessPerformance of aerobic and anaerobic landfill bioreactor for municipal solid waste treatment in Jatibarang landfill, Semarang
Author(s) -
Mochamad Arief Budihardjo,
Alfian Rizky Rizaldianto,
Fadel Iqbal Muhammad
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/669/1/012021
Subject(s) - bioreactor , leachate , bioreactor landfill , anaerobic exercise , waste management , environmental science , municipal solid waste , methane , pulp and paper industry , environmental engineering , chemistry , engineering , biology , physiology , organic chemistry
An investigation on the use of landfill bioreactors was conducted to elaborate an alternative solution on the municipal solid waste management in Jatibarang Landfill, Semarang. In addition, this study is also trying to develop a prevention on leachate and greenhouse gases pollution which are potentially emits from a landfilling process. There are six landfill bioreactors that were constructed for this study, which consist of two anaerobic bioreactors (R1 and R2) and two aerobic bioreactors (R3 and R4). Leachate recirculation was applied on R1 and R2 since the leachate production began while R3 and R4 was given air injection with 2 l/min flow rate. R1 and R2 maintained its thermophilic phase longer and generated more methane gases than aerobic bioreactors. Meanwhile, both aerobic bioreactors reached the thermophilic phase on day-7, faster than the anaerobic bioreactors.