Food and Meat Packing Industry Wastes

Food and Meat Packing Industry Wastes Industry Description 

Implementation of these practices will affect the concentration and quantity of waste constituents, but not the quantity of wastewater. 

The characteristics of wastewaters from the meat products industry are shown in Table 13. The meat products industry is a year-round operation with daily operation on an intermittent basis. Plants usually shut down daily for an extensive clean-up period following the processing period. This practice results in the generation of intermittent wastewater flows. 

Considerations in the treatment of meat product wastewaters with domestic wastes are the high chlorine demand, the presence of surface-active agents, focal conform. 

The pretreatment unit operations wluch may be necessary for various types of treatment processes are slmwn in Table 14. In addition to screening and free-floating grease removal, various in-plant control practices, such as blood recovery, and separate handling of paunch manure as solid waste would greatly reduce the waste constituents in process wastewaters. When meat product wastewater is combined widi domestic wastewater, pretreatment should include equalization to reduce organic and hydraulic fluctuaticHis. The equalization basin should be aerated to prevent septic conditions. 

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