In this work, landfill leachate treatment by electrocoagulation process with a novel rotating anode reactor was studied. The influence of rotating anode speed on the removal efficiency of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total dissolved solids (TDS), and total suspended solids (TSS) of raw landfill leachate was investigated. The influence of operating parameters like leachate pH, leachate temperature, current, and inter-distance between the cathode rings and anode impellers on the electrocoagulation performance were also investigated. The results revealed the optimum rotating speed is 150 rpm and increasing the rotating speed above this value led to reducing process performance. The leachate electrocoagulation treatment process favors the neutral medium and the treatment performance increases with increasing current intensity. Furthermore, the electrocoagulation treatment performance improves with increasing leachate temperature. However, the performance reduces with increasing inter-electrode distance.
An integrated linear regression technique was developed and validated to model dissolved oxygen in salt lakes by using R software and based on data from Sawa Lake, Iraq. The technique helps understand and evaluate salty aquatic ecosystems in the presence of water quality data gaps. The technique involved selecting the important water quality parameters that have significant statistical relationship with dissolved oxygen. In order to make the regression development simpler, the validation approach was incorporated with the model. Linearity, homogeneity, normality, outliers, and influential data points were verified. The simulation approach was also capable of displaying the interaction between the selected water quality parameters and the other insignificant parameters. The statistical analysis results indicated that dissolved oxygen in salt lakes is a function of total dissolved solids. The developed model represented dissolved oxygen with R-squared of 90.73% and p-value of 1.08E-06. Furthermore, the model results showed that the influence of salty ions on dissolved oxygen/total dissolved solids model is the same. It was found that temperature has a significant impact on the developed dissolved oxygen model. In addition, the model simulation revealed that salt melting surrounding the lake due to temperature variation during the year cycle
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