pH regulation of alkaline wastewater with carbon dioxide: A case study of treatment of brewery wastewater in UASB reactor coupled with absorber

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• 作者：A. Gangagni Rao ; T. Sasi Kanth Reddy ; S. Surya Prakash ; J. Vanajakshi ; Johny Joseph ; P.N. Sarma
• 关键词：Acidifying agent ; Carbon dioxide ; Brewery wastewater ; Biogas ; HRT ; OLR ; UASB ; Absorber
• 刊名：Bioresource Technology
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：August 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：98
• 期：11
• 页码：2131-2136
• 全文大小：471 K

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Studies were carried out with carbon dioxide absorber (CA) to evaluate the usage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the biogas as an acidifying agent by Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor. Investigation on the 5 l absorber revealed that ratio of brewery wastewater (BW) flow rate to biogas flow rate of 4.6–5.2 was optimum for minimum consumption of CO₂ for acidification. The acidified BW after the absorber was treated in UASB reactor with optimum organic loading rate (OLR) of 23.1 kg COD/m³/day and hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 2 h. UASB reactor exhibited good performance with respect to reduction of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and methane yield. The implications of the present study on the full scale anaerobic reactor of medium scale brewery revealed that sufficient cost savings could be made if CO₂ in the biogas or CO₂ that was being wasted (let out to the atmosphere) can be used instead of sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) for pH control.