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    Abstract - Issue Nov 2015, 36 (6)                                     Back


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Performance evaluation of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor process for dairy wastewater treatment

 

C. Elangovan1* and A.S.S. Sekar2

1Civil Engineering Department, Anna University, Chennai-600 025, India

2Civil Engineeering Department, Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi-630 004, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: celango_g@yahoo.com

 

 

 

Publication Data

Paper received:

03 May 2014

 

Revised received:

30 September 2014

 

Re-revised received:

02 January 2015

 

Accepted:

20 March 2015

 

Abstract

Investigation on dairy wastewater treatment was undertaken at ambient temperature in 11 l effective volume of laboratory ? scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor receiving an average influent chemical oxygen demand of 2100 mg l-1 for 3 months of 24 hours, hydraulic retention time. The feeds of the synthetic dairy wastewater operated with HRT of 12 hrs, 16 hrs, 20 hrs and 24 hrs was equivalent to organic loading rates of 1.20 kg COD m-3 d - 7.20 kg COD m-3 d, 0.9 kg COD m-3 d - 5.40 kg COD m-3 d, 0.72 kg COD m-3 d - 4.32 kg COD m-3 d and 0.60 kg COD m-3 d - 3.60 kg COD m-3 d respectively. After steady state condition was reached, which took about 2 months, the effluent quality parameter were sampled and analysed to quantify treatment efficiencies. The following removal efficiency observed were 73 - 94.33% COD; 50.04 - 56.66% total solids; 45.55 - 70.63% total dissolved solids; 66 - 86.67% total nitrogen and 72 - 94% total phosphorous. Maximum biogas production rate was 383 l kg-1 COD removed with 260 l of methane gas. Estimation of biogas production was analysed using artificial neural network software model, and the results predicted coincided well with the experimental results. ???  

 

 

 Key words

Biogas, Chemical oxygen demand, Dairy wastewater, Hydraulic retention time, Organic loading rate 

 

 

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