The objective of this work is to investigate the feasibility of fenton oxidation during the treatment of sanitary landfill leachate. A set of experiments were prepared at the Sanitary Landfill of Belo Horizonte - MG, where the process was conducted in a mixture reactor with 1000 L capacity. The results have shown a high effective removal of organic pollutants, where results for COD removal were above 46%, with an average of 61%, and the best removal rate around 75%. The use of Fenton oxidation has been proved to be a successful technique to be used as a preliminary treatment, clearly showing the possibility to be used in a real scale.
Lachate; advanced oxidative process; fenton reagent; sanitary landfill
