The performance of a laboratory scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor and its posttreatment unit of sand-chemically carbonized rubber wood sawdust (CCRWSD) column system for the treatment of a metal contaminated municipal wastewater was investigated. Copper ion contaminated municipal wastewater was introduced to a laboratory scale UASB reactor and the effluent from UASB reactor w...

This paper discusses current technological improvements related to a compact system comprised by UASB reactor and sponge-bed trickling filter (SBTF) as a potential alternative for decentralized sewage treatment systems in developing countries. The proposed improvements deal with some inherent constraints of the anaerobic treatment and seek to improve the design and operational strategies focusi...

The feasibility of anaerobic treatment of methanol condensate from pulp and paper mill in UASB reactor was investigated and compared with the anaerobic treatment of methanol. The UASB reactor treating methanol condensate was operated for 480 days with minimum problems of overload. COD removal from methanol condensate and methanol under normal operating conditions ranged from 84-86% to 86-98%, r...

All bioreactor configurations are affected by mixing and transport phenomena and consequently the bioreactor’s hydraulics governs the reactor’s configurations as well as performance. For instance, to provide good conditions for substrate transport to, and from, the microbial aggregates, an even mixing pattern at the macro-level is desirable. However, the available data that either describe UASB...