Leachate is a form of pollution from landfills with pollutants in organic and inorganic forms. Stabilized leachate is characterized by the presence of organic materials with high ammoniacal nitrogen concentrations (>400mg/L), high chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentrations (<4000mg/L) and the ratio of BOD/COD is low (<0.1). In this study, struvite precipitation used to remove high ammonia content and coagulation-flocculation using poly-aluminium chloride (PAC) as coagulant agent and cationic polymer as flocculant agent used for COD and colour removal. Response surface methodology (RSM) is applied to determine the optimum parameters and interaction effects of the four main factors that influence the efficiency of treatment used; coagulant dosage, flocculant dosage, pH and Mg-N-P ratio on COD, NH3-N and colour removal. Optimum parameters obtained from the study were the coagulant dosage of 2250 mg/L, flocculant dosage of 14 mg/L, pH 7, and Mg: N: P ratio 1.1. The combination of struvite precipitation and coagulation-flocculation method results a percentage of removal of COD 48.6%, NH3-N 92.8% and color 98.8%
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