BACKGROUND The process of meat industry produces in a large amount of wastewater that contains high levels of colour and chemical oxygen demand (COD). So they must be pretreated before their discharge into the ecological system. METHODS In this paper, enzymatic catalysis (EC) was adopted to treat the meat wastewater. RESULTS Box-Behnken design (BBD), an experimental design for response surf...

The oxidation behavior of twenty organic chemicals from four different classes (sugars, benzene derivatives, alcohols and carboxyl acids) were investigated using the official chemical oxygen demand (COD) methods (i.e., permanganate and dichromate methods) and their oxidation levels compared with the theoretical oxygen demand (ThOD) values. In addition, the correlation between the official COD a...

The aim of this research is to build a portable system to perform real-time analysis of waste water samples. Thus, that can significantly improve existing waste water treatment technology. In waste water treatment plant, an important parameter, chemical oxygen demand is needed to be measured. The amount of chemical oxygen demand determines the degree of water pollution by organic material. The ...

This study investigates the anaerobic treatability of reactive Red2 in an anaerobic/aerobic sequential process. Laboratory scale anaerobic baffled reactor and fixed activated sludge reactor were operated at different organic loadings and hydraulic retention times. The effects of shock dye concentration on the chemical oxygen demand and color removal efficiencies were investigated in the anaerob...

This study investigates the anaerobic treatability of Acid orange dye in an anaerobic/aerobic sequential process. Laboratory scale anaerobic baffled reactor and fixed activated sludge reactor were operated at different organic loadings and hydraulic retention times. The effects of shock dye concentration on the chemical oxygen demand and color removal efficiencies were investigated in the anaer...

Many industries are charged fees based on the organic loads in effluents. Therefore, it can be advantageous to reduce the wastewater strength prior to discharge. We investigated the use of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to reduce the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of a paper-plant wastewater while at the same time producing electricity in a continuous flow system. At a hydraulic retention time (HRT)...

Effluents from Baker's yeast production plant contain a high percentage of color and a large amount of organic load. In the present study, Baker's yeast wastewater (BYW) is treated with the electrocoagulation (EC) process using Al electrodes. Operating parameters (pH, current density, color intensity and operating time) are optimized by response surface methodology (RSM). Quadratic models are d...

The rheological characteristics of digested sludge are severely temperature dependent. An effect of temperature on rheological properties of digested sludge is partially irreversible. In this paper, the effects of temperature change and thermal history on viscosity of digested sludge were studied using a stress-controlled rheometer which was connected to a temperature controlled water bath. Dig...

Anaerobic–aerobic systems have been remarkably employed in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment for many years. While previously most treatment of wastewaters have been carried out in conventional anaerobic–aerobic treatment plants, in recent years, high rate anaerobic–aerobic bioreactors have been increasingly employed for wastewaters with high chemical oxygen demand (COD). This paper...