Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor
Biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater was performed using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. Pre-treatments were not used in this study. Wastewater was taken from pharmaceutical factory that produced non-penicillin product. UASB reactor was evaluated under thermophilic (55±2...
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| description | Biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater was performed using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. Pre-treatments were not used in this study. Wastewater was taken from pharmaceutical factory that produced non-penicillin product. UASB reactor was evaluated under thermophilic (55±2°C) operating condition. Three hydraulic retention times (HRT) i.e. 5 days, 4 days, and 3 days were used for the UASB reactor. The UASB reactor was seeded with biomass from aerobic treatment. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) of wastewater was 458-2217 mg/L.
COD removal efficiencies were approximately 85%. The highest methane production was achieved by the UASB reactor at HRT of 3 days. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) performed on the results showed that, at 5% level of significance; the COD removal was significantly affected by HRT. |
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| spelling | oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:16112017-01-19T08:26:02Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/1611/ Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor Herumurti, W. Isa, M.H. Kutty, S.R.M. TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater was performed using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. Pre-treatments were not used in this study. Wastewater was taken from pharmaceutical factory that produced non-penicillin product. UASB reactor was evaluated under thermophilic (55±2°C) operating condition. Three hydraulic retention times (HRT) i.e. 5 days, 4 days, and 3 days were used for the UASB reactor. The UASB reactor was seeded with biomass from aerobic treatment. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) of wastewater was 458-2217 mg/L. COD removal efficiencies were approximately 85%. The highest methane production was achieved by the UASB reactor at HRT of 3 days. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) performed on the results showed that, at 5% level of significance; the COD removal was significantly affected by HRT. 2008-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/1611/1/Treatment_of_pharmaceutical_wastewater_using_thermophilic_UASB_reactor.pdf Herumurti, W. and Isa, M.H. and Kutty, S.R.M. (2008) Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor. In: International Graduate Conference on Engineering and Science (IGCES), School of Graduate Studies and Postgraduate Student Society, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai – Johor, Malaysia, December, 2008, Johor, Malaysia. |
| spellingShingle | TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Herumurti, W. Isa, M.H. Kutty, S.R.M. Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor |
| title | Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor |
| title_full | Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor |
| title_fullStr | Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor |
| title_short | Treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic UASB reactor |
| title_sort | treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using thermophilic uasb reactor |
| topic | TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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