Treatment of Slaughter House Wastewater in a Sequencing Batch Reactor: Performance Evaluation and Biodegradation Kinetics

• Published in: BioMed research international 2013-01, Vol.2013 (2013), p.1-11
• Main Authors: Kundu, Pradyut, Mukherjee, Somnath, Debsarkar, Anupam
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Abattoirs; Biodegradation; Biodegradation, Environmental; Bioreactors; Carbon; Carbon - chemistry; Crack opening displacement; Humans; Kinetics; Nitrification; Nitrogen - chemistry; Performance evaluation; Purification; Reactors; Sequencing; Sewage; Slaughterhouses; Waste water; Waste Water - chemistry
• ISSN: 2314-6133; 2314-6141
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/134872

Slaughterhouse wastewater contains diluted blood, protein, fat, and suspended solids, as a result the organic and nutrient concentration in this wastewater is vary high and the residues are partially solubilized, leading to a highly contaminating effect in riverbeds and other water bodies if the same is let off untreated. The performance of a laboratory-scale Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) has been investigated in aerobic-anoxic sequential mode for simultaneous removal of organic carbon and nitrogen from slaughterhouse wastewater. The reactor was operated under three different variations of aerobic-anoxic sequence, namely, (4+4), (5+3), and (3+5) hr. of total react period with two different sets of influent soluble COD (SCOD) and ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) level 1000±50 mg/L, and 90±10 mg/L, 1000±50 mg/L and 180±10 mg/L, respectively. It was observed that from 86 to 95% of SCOD removal is accomplished at the end of 8.0 hr of total react period. In case of (4+4) aerobic-anoxic operating cycle, a reasonable degree of nitrification 90.12 and 74.75% corresponding to initial NH4+-N value of 96.58 and 176.85 mg/L, respectively, were achieved. The biokinetic coefficients (k, Ks, Y, kd) were also determined for performance evaluation of SBR for scaling full-scale reactor in future operation.