Anaerobic wastewater treatment to yield biogas

• Main Authors: Zainol, Norazwina, Rahman, Rakmi Abd.
• Other Authors: Ahmad, Abdul Latif
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2004
• Subjects: Q179.9-180 Research
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/42756/1/pENV09.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/42756/
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

Anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewater has became a viable technology in recent years due to the rapid development of high-rate reactors, such as anaerobic filter, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) (Fang et al., 1996; Dinsdale et al., 1997) both upflow and downflow stationary packed beds (Nebot et al., 1995), and fluidized or expanded beds (Chen et al., 1988; Breintenbucher et al., 1990; Hickey et al., 1991; Iza, 1991; Perez et al., 1997a; Seckler et al., 1996). This development is due to the fact that the method combines a number of significant advantages, including low energy consumption, low excess sludge production and enclosure of odours.