Performance evaluation of up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor for treatment of paper mill wastewater

Abstract： The present study deals with the performance evaluation of the UASB reactor under varied organic loadingrate(OLR) for the treatment of paper mill wastewater. The sludge granulation process started after 120 days from thed) the VSS concentration was 12.86 gVSS/L, which got increased to 38.05 gVSS/L at the end of an OLR 2.1process. Many times the pH observed was between 6.5 and 7.8, which is more favorable for any anaerobicprocess. It is also found that pH within the reactor increases along with the height of reactor. The total maximumremoval at this stage was observed to be 90%. 作 者： M.Mahadevaswamy    B.M.Sadashiva Murthy    A.R.Girijamma   作者單位： Department of Environmental Engineering, S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore-570 006, Karnataka State, India  期 刊： 環(huán)境科學(xué)學(xué)報(bào)(英文版)  ISTICSCI   Journal： JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES  年，卷(期)： 2004, 16(2)  分類號(hào)： X703 X793  Keywords： UASB    biogas    anaerobic digestion    sludge loading rate    organic loading rate