title: The treatability study of high strength pet food wastewater: a continuous flow aerobic system performance evaluation.
abstract: This paper presents continuous flow two stage activated sludge treatability studies for the treatment of pet food wastewaters characterized by oil & grease concentration of 50,000-66,000 mg l(-1), total COD & BOD concentrations of 100,000 mg l(-1) and 80,000 mg l(-1), respectively. A pre-treatment system, dissolved air flotation (DAF) achieved 97-99% reduction in oil and grease down to about 400-800 mg l(-1). The pilot experimental results showed that for the DAF pretreated effluent, 97% soluble COD removal efficiency can be achieved by using two stage conventional activated sludge system at a 6-7 days HRT and applied initial soluble COD to biomass ratio of 1.17 mg COD mg VSS. Meanwhile, the system achieved 99.9% soluble BOD removal. Analysis of system kinetics indicated that this particular wastewater is very difficult to biodegrade, with an extremely high half velocity constant "Ks" of 5800 mg l(-1). The research showed the potential applications of activated sludge systems for the treatment of high oil and grease wastewater.
authors.affiliation: US Filter Canada, Markham, Ont., Canada.
authors.forename: Lei Victor
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nakhla
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bassi
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001420:Bacteria, Aerobic; D019149:Bioreactors; D019649:Food Industry; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014872:Water Movements; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*