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Simulated landfill bioreactors were established and operated for 635 days to investigate the dynamic release of seven siloxanes in landfill biogas (denoted by octamethyltrisiloxane (L3), decamethyltetrasiloxane (L4), dodecamethylpentasiloxane (L5), hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane (D3), octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) and dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane (D6)). In total, 259.45, 252.73, 233.30, 80.40, 4.35, 1.67 and 1.10 mg of D5, D3, D4, D6, L4, L5 and L3 were discharged from 57 kg of municipal solid waste (MSW). More than 70 % of the siloxanes were released before day 119, indicating that the peak period of siloxane discharge occurred during the hydrolysis and acid production stage. The cyclosiloxanes (D3, D4, D5 and D6) were the dominant siloxane species in the biogas. The mass load of discharged cyclosiloxanes was more than 98 % of that of the total siloxanes. In addition to the variation in the concentration distribution profiles of the different siloxane species in the MSW, transformations among species may have an important effect on the release of siloxanes. The main transformation products were D3 and D4 with high release rates (>20 %) and high measured contents of trimethylsilanol (TMSOH) and functional microorganisms (Pseudomonas) were observed during landfilling. These results suggested that MSW degradation and transformation of siloxanes both drive the dynamic release of siloxanes during long-term landfilling.
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