Wastewater treatment food & beverage industry - Food and Beverage
The production of food and beverage consumes high volumes of process water and then generates highly polluted organic waste water. The high peaks of wastewater increase the cost of treatment, and should also ensure that there is much storage required for equalization of the contaminated water. The wastewater from food & beverage plants often contains high concentrations of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), suspended solids (TSS), fats, oils and nutrients in varying concentrations.
Wastewater Installations of food and beverage manufacturers are continuously challenged by changing conditions caused by high peaks in amount and concentration of wastewater. Situations, where this matter occurs, are changes in production operations, an increase of the production, temperature change, limited capacity of equalization and washing water peaks.
The high peaks in the wastewater from food and beverage plants ensure that the treatment of the wastewater is very complex. Many conventional wastewater systems which operate on the basis of activated sludge treatment, therefore, can not handle such a large and sudden variations in BOD, COD and nutrients.