Full scale experiences with anaerobic/aerobic treatment plants in the food and beverage industry

• Published in: Water Science & Technology Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 305 - 312
• Main Authors: AUSTERMANN-HAUN, U, MEYER, H, SEYFRIED, C. F, ROSENWINKEL, K.-H
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Pergamon Press 1999; IWA Publishing
• Subjects: Aerobic treatment; Aluminium; Aluminum; Ammonium; Ammonium compounds; Anaerobic digestion; Anaerobic processes; Anaerobic treatment; Applied sciences; Beverage industry; Biological and medical sciences; Biological treatment of waters; Biotechnology; Environment and pollution; Exact sciences and technology; Factories; Food industries; Food industry; Food plants; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Germany; Handling; Industrial applications and implications. Economical aspects; Industrial plants; Industrial wastes; Industrial wastewater; Industrial wastewaters; Industry; Magnesium; Municipal wastewater; Pectin; Phosphates; Pollution; Pollution and sludges; Potatoes; Saccharides; Sludge; Sludge bed; Solutions; Starch; Sugar; Wastewater; Wastewater treatment; Wastewater treatment plants; Wastewaters; Water treatment and pollution; Water treatment plants; Germany; Anaerobiosis; Brewery; Aerobiosis; Combined process; Pectin; Biological purification; Potato; Industrial waste water; Food industry; Beet sugar; Distillery; Waste water purification; Beverage industry; Wheat
• ISBN: 9780080434117; 0080434118
• ISSN: 0273-1223; 1996-9732
• DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00399-6

In Germany, there are currently 125 full-scale anaerobic treatment plants treating industrial wastewater. This paper describes the operational experiences of several industries (beet sugar, starch, pectin brewery, distillery, vegetable, potato processing) which undertake anaerobic wastewater treatment, with particular emphasis on specific wastewater problems and their solutions. Also presented are experiences with the handling of high nitrate concentrations, with the treatment of mixtures of industrial wastewater from different origins, with the chance to prevent the emergence of lime, magnesium ammonium phosphate (MAP) or aluminium precipitation. This paper deals as well with the first EGSB reactor (Expanded Granular Sludge Bed) at a German potato processing factory as well as the first municipal wastewater treatment plant combined with a separate anaerobic stage to treat a wastewater mixture from several small factories.