TY - JOUR A1 - Lopez Meza, Sarynna A1 - Kalbe, Ute A1 - Berger, Wolfgang A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg T1 - Effect of contact time on the release of contaminants from granular waste materials during column leaching experiments JF - Waste management N2 - When reusing or disposing of contaminated granular waste materials there is a need to evaluate how the contaminants will interact on the pathway soil-groundwater and the effect this interaction will have on the surrounding environment. While column testing can provide a closer approximation to field percolation conditions than batch testing, there is still a need to develop column testing procedures that consider the requirements of practical testing time frames. This study evaluates the effect of different column contact times (2.5, 5, and 16 h) on the release of inorganic constituents from bottom ash and demolition waste, two commonly reused granular materials. Leaching data for representative constituents of concern, such as copper, chromium, sulfate and chloride, as well as pH and electrical conductivity was compared for all different contact times studied. Results for the materials investigated in this study showed that variations in contact time have no significant effect on the release of the selected constituents and leaching parameters at low liquid to solid ratios. However, after a liquid to solid ratio of 1 L/kg, the effect is more noticeable, and higher contact times show lower pH values as well as a reduction in the release of constituents of concern from bottom ash. In the case of demolition waste, the variation of contact time did not have a strong effect on the leaching behavior. KW - Leaching procedures KW - Standardisation KW - Column tests KW - Contact time KW - Granular materials KW - Waste PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2009.11.022 SN - 0956-053X VL - 30 IS - 4 SP - 565 EP - 571 PB - Pergamon Press CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-20934 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krüger, Oliver A1 - Kalbe, Ute A1 - Berger, Wolfgang A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg A1 - López Meza, S. T1 - Leaching experiments on the release of heavy metals and PAH from C&D waste and MSWI bottom ash T2 - 2nd International conference on hazardous and industrial waste management N2 - Leaching tests are fundamental tools for the assessment of long-term impact of contaminated waste materials on the soil-groundwater pathway. Waste materials should be tested under conditions equal to their actual application in re-use scenarios to achieve reliable results. Since the standards for leaching procedures available on international level so far are either not validated or considered inadequate in respect to coarse grained materials, new standards had to be developed. Therefore column percolation and batch test procedures have been standardized and validated to enable their introduction to new German regulations concerning waste management. Practical aspects of the test procedures as well as the boundary conditions compared to the already existing standards will be described. Examples including round robin test results will be given to justify the selection of the new specifications. T2 - 2nd International conference on hazardous and industrial waste management CY - Chania, Crete, Greece DA - 2010-10-05 KW - Leaching KW - Bioavailability KW - Column tests KW - Batch tests PY - 2010 IS - Session A, A5.1. SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-22128 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -