Anaerobic treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions

• Main Authors: Isa, M.H., Kutty, S.R.M., Rahim, F.A.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4118/1/Anaerobic_treatment_of_pharmaceutical_wastewater_under_mesophilic_and_thermophilic_conditions.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4118/

Two upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors with different operating temperatures, mesophilic (35 ± 1 ºC) and thermophilic (54 ± 1 ºC) were used to study the treatment of a non-penicillin based product factory wastewater. Seed sludge for the reactors was taken from the Universiti Teknologi P...