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Anaerobic treatment of brewery effluent

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Brewery effluent with high organic content was treated anaerobically in a 1.17 m3 reactor over five months. At 26°C, and with a HRT of 13.3 hrs and a loading rate of 4.9 kg COD/m3d, the process reduced over 89% of COD and 92% of BOD5 from the brewery effluent; both reductions could be further improved by more effective removal of suspended solids.

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  1. Civil Engineering Department, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

    Herbert H. P. Fang & Liu Guohua

  2. School of Environmental Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    Zhu Jinfu

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Fang, H.H.P., Jinfu, Z. & Guohua, L. Anaerobic treatment of brewery effluent. Biotechnol Lett 11, 673–678 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01025281

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