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The UASB Treatment of Winery Wastewater under Submesophilic and Psychrophilic Conditions
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Winery WastewaterSewage Sludge TreatmentEngineeringReactor Seed SludgeWaste TreatmentBiological Waste TreatmentMunicipal WastewaterWastewater TreatmentChemical EngineeringBioremediationWater TreatmentEnvironmental MicrobiologyGranular SludgeHydraulic Retention TimesPsychrophilic ConditionsWastewater ManagementUasb TreatmentIndustrial WastewaterWaste ManagementEffluent DisposalEnvironmental EngineeringPretreatmentEnvironmental Remediation
Abstract The start-up and operational performance of two laboratory UASB reactors (working volume of 2.6 l) treating diluted vinasse (1-17 g COD l−1) were investigated at 35 °C (run 1, without recycle), 19-21°C (run 2, without recycle), 18-20°C (run 3, with recycle 1:1) and 9-10 °C (run 4, with recycle 1:2.6). The reactors for runs 1 and 2 were seeded with flocculant mesophilic sludge. For runs 3 and 4, the reactor seed sludge was upgraded by addition of 30% of psychrotrophically adapted granular sludge. A successful start-up of the reactors for all runs was achieved in 2-3 months. The maximum applied organic loading rates (OLR) were 15.9, 6.5, 12.5 and 7.2 g CODl−1d−1 for runs 1-4, respectively. Hydraulic retention times at these loadings were around or less than 1 day. The total COD removals achieved under these OLR were higher than 85% for the first 3 runs and higher than 60% for run 4 with substantial decoloration of effluents (reduction of polyphenol content varied between 45-67%). Keywords: COD removalpsychrophilicsubmesophilicUASB reactorvinasse