The challenges of leachate management in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills today are mounting with no signs of slowing down. Heartland Leachate Management Service (LMS) is a complete turnkey offering for on-site leachate treatment. Heartland's team of certified operators leverages best practices gained across multiple facilities to deliver a proven on-site leachate treatment solution, taking the costly burden off constrained landfill operations. LMS takes the complexity and uncertainty out of leachate treatment requiring zero out-of-pocket capital expense for the customer and enables operators to focus attention on core operations, while eliminating disposal uncertainty, cost uncertainty, and risk for plant operations.
Challenges in leachate management
“It just keeps coming!”
Steadily rising treatment and/or disposal costs
Rising Uncertainty/Cost for POTW disposal – “You’re cut off!”
Regulations, Strength, Visibility, Ammonia, Emerging Contaminants of Concern
Continued diligent regulator enforcement
Less recirculation / more dewatering
LMS BEnefits
Disposal Certainty: Provides life-of-the-landfill solution
Cost Certainty: Provides life-of-the-landfill cost predictability
Operational Excellence: All operations & maintenance performed by Heartland – no added staff required
No Capital Required: Zero out-of-pocket CAPEX, Heartland provides 100% of the required capital
Compliance: Manages your leachate to exacting regulatory standards
Technology
Heartland Concentrator™
Concentrator CoVAP Configuration
The Heartland Advantage
Our advanced industry-recognized Concentrator technology offers a game-changing solution for efficiently treating leachate. The foundation of Heartland’s unique solution is proprietary LM-HT® evaporation capable of processing the widest range of wastewater, generally without pre-treatment.
Configurations
Each landfill is unique and requires individual consideration to achieve optimal results.
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Heartland is the world leader in directly using thermal energy from a wide range of sources. Heartland has over a decade of experience in designing, installing and operating concentrators using gas flares, turbine/engine exhaust, stack exhaust, and/or a combination of these as the primary thermal energy source.
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Together, the Heartland Concentrator™ and Reverse Osmosis (RO) provide an energy efficient environmentally sustainable solution that takes trucks off the road and generates clean reusable water, all while treating some of the most concentrated and difficult-to-manage waste streams.
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Hybrid configuration brings ultimate flexibility and value to a customer with available exhaust heat from on-site landfill gas powered reciprocating engine.
