Dairy wastes anaerobic treatment

There is growing interest in anaerobic treatment as an energy-efficient approach to waste treatment. Wastewaters treated by anaerobic processes include those from alcohol distillation, brewery, chemical manufacturing, dairy and cheese processing, landfill leachate, pharmaceutical and sugar processing. All... 

Anaerobic treatment applications for dairy industry wastewaters have been evaluated in a number of previous studies (Backman et al., 1985 Barford et al., 1986 Clanton et al., 1985 Hills and Kayhanian, 1985 Lo and Liao, 1986a,b Lo et al., 1987 Mendez et al., 1989 Samson et al., 1985 Toldra et al., 1987). More recent information about anaerobic treatment practices of dairy waste streams is also presented by Demirel et al. (2005) (Tables 3.8 and 3.9). 

Samson, R, Van den Berg, B, Peters, R, and Claude, H. (1985). Dairy waste treatment using industrial scale fixed-film and upflow sludge bed anaerobic digesters Design and startup experience. In Proceedings of 39thPurdue Industrial Waste Conference", pp. 235-241. 

Backman, RC, Blanc, FC, and O shaughnessy, JC (1985). Treatment of dairy wastewater by the anaerobic up-flow packed bed reactor. In "Proceedings of 40th Purdue Industrial Waste Conference" pp. 361-372. 

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