Anaerobic moving bed biofilm reactor followed by aerobic granular sludge for brewery wastewater treatment
- Authors: di Biase A.; Corsino S.F.; Devlin T.R.; Torregrossa M.; Munz G.; Oleszkiewicz J.A.;
- Publication year: 2018
- Type: Abstract in atti di convegno pubblicato in volume
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/381194
Abstract
Small and medium breweries discharging to municipal sewers without treatment generate significant loads with typical concentrations reported by Valta et al. (2014) as 2-6 g COD L-1, 25-80 mg TN L-1, 10-50 mg TP L-1, with pH between 4.5 and 12. Treatment of the high-strength wastewater requires specialized low footprint processes, such as aerobic granular sludge (AGS), capable of high-rate degradation, as well as simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorous removal (Wang et al., 2007). The objective of this study was to evaluate the start-up period of AGS receiving brewery wastewater after initial anaerobic pre-treatment.