Wastewater BOD Articles
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Meat Processing Plants Discharging Wastewater Beyond Permitted Levels
Meat processing plants often produce a high-BOD effluent that’s difficult to treat. Decentralized treatment and waste-to-energy can be effective in reducing harmful effluent According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 74 of 98 large meat processing facilities that discharged their wastewater into streams and rivers overshot their permitted volumes between 2016 and ...
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Good Preparation and Planning Reduces Wastewater Headaches Associated with Production Outages
Author’s note: The terms mill and plant are used interchangeably in this article to describe an industrial manufacturing unit, such as a Pulp & Paper Mill, Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Processing Plant, Meat & Poultry Processing, etc. Plant (or mill) outages come in two types – scheduled and unplanned. Scheduled outages are generally annual affairs at roughly the same time ...
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GEM + MBR - Catering Water Recycle - Case Study
Introduction An in-flight catering and commissary terminal (SATS) was in need for a more advanced wastewater treatment system, as their current wastewater treatment solution was inefficient and did not meet discharge requirements. CWT and its partners developed a solution which allowed ATS to not only treat their water to reduce discharge costs, but also allowed water re-use as well. Challenge ...
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Europaper, Italy A Case Study
Case Study: Pulp & Paper PlantClient: Siemens Water Technologies – ItalyStart Up: August 2005Capacity: 2,000 m3/d Overview Europaper produces tissues paper for Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti, which has its own branch (Foxy). Changes in the paper production were followed by an increase of the BOD load in the wastewater. Therefore the existing water treatment plant had to be upgraded. ...
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Case study: Pulp & paper plant
OverviewEuropaper produces tissues paper for Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti, which has its own branch (Foxy). Changes in the paper production were followed by an increase of the BOD load in the wastewater. Therefore the existing water treatment plant had to be upgraded. RequirementsAn increased BOD load in the wastewater, caused by a conversion of production, required an upgrade of the existing ...
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Advanced pretreatment enables MBBR treatment of high strength candy manufacturing wastewater
Abstract Bimbo – Ricolino candy manufacturing plant in Mexico City was discharging wastewater with high amount of fats oil and grease and dissolved sugars. Local regulatory agency requested that suspended solids, oil and grease and dissolved BOD be almost completely removed prior to discharge to municipal plant. The available real estate in Mexico City was very limited. A multistep ...
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