Comparative Study of Performance Evaluation of UASB Reactor for Treating Synthetic Dairy Effluent at Psychrophilic and Mesophilic Temperatures

Sivakumar R.; Sekaran V.

Comparative Study of Performance Evaluation of UASB Reactor for Treating Synthetic Dairy Effluent at Psychrophilic and Mesophilic Temperatures

2015

Sivakumar R. | Sekaran V.

Dairy industry contributes to the pollution of the environment, both in quality and quantity. It generates about 0.2 to 10 L of effluent per liter of milk processed. Up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket is most suitable for biodegradable wastes, hence the present study evaluated the performance of UASBR through a laboratory model (25 liters of volume) for treating the dairy effluent with maintained psychrophilic temperature (15-20ºC) at phase I and mesophilic temperature (30-40ºC) at phase II. This model was studied for its treatment efficiency in terms of COD reduction. In the phase I, the average varying influent COD applied over the model are 1684, 2693, 3160, 3637, and 4059 mg/L with flow rates for each average influent COD as 4.80, 9.60, 14.40, 19.20 and 24.00 L/d. It was found that, successful COD removal of 91.42% was for the operating conditions of OLR at 0.039 kg COD/kg VSS day, VLR at 0.70 kg COD/m3 day and HRT at 5.21 days. In the phase II the average varying influent COD of 2316, 2827, 3329, 3908 and 4522 mg/L were applied with same flow rates. The experimental work on UASBR model was found successful with 94.70% COD removal under the operating conditions of OLR at 0.037 kg COD/kg VSS day, VLR at 0.630 kg COD/m3day and HRT at 5.21 days. The reactor achieved BOD, TSS, TDS, N and P removal efficiency, observed in phase I and II, as 91%, 82%, 89%, 42% and 46% and 96.4%, 86%, 91%, 41% and 50% respectively.

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