Anaerobic digestion of autoclaved (160°C, 6.2 bar) and untreated source segregated food waste (FW) was compared over 473 days in semi-continuously fed mesophilic reactors with trace elements supplementation, at organic loading rates (OLRs) of 2, 3, 4 and 6 kg volatile solids(VS)/m(3)d. Methane yields at all OLR were 5-10% higher for untreated FW (maximum 0.483±0.013 m(3) CH4/kg VS at 3 kg VS/m(...

a study was performed in hybrid up flow anaerobic sludge blanket (huasb) and anaerobic filter (af) reactors to compare the start-up time and optimum hrt required for the treatment of poultry slaughterhouse wastewater under similar loading conditions. initially, the reactors were started at an olr of 0.77 kg cod/m3.d and hrt of 36 h. loading rates were increased by reducing hrt 24, 16, 12, 10 an...

A novel waterfall aeration biofilm reactor integrated with a constructed wetland (WABR-CW) system was developed to meet the challenge of decentralized wastewater treatment focus on nutrient removal. In lab-scale experiment 70 days, WABR-CW showed high removal efficiency for COD (85–98 %), NH4+-N (100 TN (60–90 %) and TP (85 %-95 even when different organic loading rates (OLR) were used. The CW ...

The combined strong hydraulic selection pressure (HSP) with overstressed organic loading rate (OLR) as a fast granulation strategy was used to enhance aerobic granulation. To investigate the wide applicability of this strategy to different scenarios and its relevant mechanism, different settling times, different inoculums, different exchange ratios, different reactor configurations, and differe...

background and purpose: the performance of full-scale moving bed biofilm reactor (mbbr) was evaluated as an alternative for upgrading of kish island mirmohana wastewater treatment plant. in this study activated sludge process upgrade to mbbr process and different operating parameters were compared. materials and methods: effect of upgrading on different parameters such as organic loading rate (...

The feasibility of anaerobic digestion of dairy wastewater at 10°C was investigated in a high height : diameter ratio EGSB reactor. Stable performance was observed at an applied organic loading rate (OLR) of 0.5-2 kg COD m(-3) d(-1) with chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiencies above 85%. When applied OLR increased to values above 2 kg COD m(-3) d(-1), biotreatment efficiency deteriora...

background: the disposal the wastewater sugar extraction to the rivers and environment cause contamination and is considered as a threat to the marine life and the environment. thus, treatment of the wastewater is necessary. investigating the reduction of the pollution load of cane industry with anaerobic sequencing batch biofilm reactor (asbbr) in the laboratory scale is the purpose of this st...

Although anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBR) are widely used in high-strength wastewater treatment and resource recovery, operational performance fouling control remain critical issues. In this study, the of a high-biomass (18 ≤ MLSS (g/L) 35) submerged bioreactor (HBSAnMBR) was assessed at organic loading rates (OLR) 1.05–5 kg-COD/m3/d to treat abattoir (AWW). The correlation between kineti...

The study compared the performance of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors and anaerobic filters (AF) for the treatment of wheat straw washwater (WSW) which has a high concentration of Potassium ions. The trial was conducted at mesophilic temperatures (37 o C). The digesters were started up over a 48-day period using a synthetic wastewater feed and reached an organic loading rate (OL...

The quick recovery process of contaminants removal of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is complex, and the influencing factors are still not clear. The effects of dissolved oxygen (DO, air intensive aeration rate), organic loading rate (OLR), and C/N on contaminants removal characteristics of AGS and subsequently long-term operation of AGS bioreactor were investigated in this study. DO had a major...