OriginClear inks pact with Florida Atlantic University for landfill “black water” treatment
In California, OriginClear signed a Master Research Agreement with Florida Atlantic University for further scientific research and validation projects pertaining to OriginClear’s technology, Electro Water Separation with Advanced Oxidation, when applied to landfill leachate treatment.
When rain or ground water flows through municipal and industrial waste landfill, leachate drains from the landfill as “black water”. This leachate is a highly contaminated and complex industrial effluent. Untreated leachate can contaminate nearby soil, groundwater and surface water and lead to a health risk for local communities. China as well as other countries are implementing increasingly drastic discharge regulations for this effluent. Additionally, there is a growing awareness in the United States of the potential risks linked to leachate contamination.
“OriginClear’s electrochemical oxidation process shows great promise in reducing effluent concentrations of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia in leachate with very short reaction times,” said Dr. Dan Meeroff, Associate Chair and Professor at FAU’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering. “New advances in anode technology make this process even more exciting and less expensive, as it has the potential to achieve excellent removal of a range of organic and inorganic constituents.”
“Known as ‘black water’, landfill leachate is a major challenge worldwide,” said Jean-Louis Kindler, President of OriginClear’s Technology Division. “We are making commercial progress in China and Malaysia, and with this partnership, we look forward to bringing our high-speed leachate process to North America.”
Category: Research
