Brewery and Distillery Effluents: Breweries and distilleries produce huge quantity of liquid effluents originated from different sections of the industrial processing. These effluents are highly pollutants bearing in terms of BOD and COD loadings. 1. Origin of wastes: The malting process produces two major wastes: those arising from the steep tank after grain have been removed, and those remaining in [...]
In drinking water disinfection by chlorine it has been demonstrated that the growth of heterotroph plate count of bacteria followed first order kinetics in the water phase of pipe system containing bacterial nutrients. This is valid for a limited stretch of pipe, where the concentration, on the other hand, has been demonstrated to follow a modified Chick's law, in which [...]
General Concerns and Principles (1). Forewords and Parameters Definition: Basically the treatment bioprocessing involves either of two mechanisms to accumulate and store the biomass. The first is a flocculated suspension of biological growth called activated sludge, which is mixed with the waste waters. In the second, a biological film is fixed to an inert surface support medium on which the [...]