The potential of a novel technology consisting of a UASB complemented with a digester (UASB-Digester) for mutual sewage treatment and sludge stabilisation under low temperature conditions was investigated. The performance of the UASB-Digester system was compared with a one stage UASB. The UASB reactor was operated at a HRT of 6 hours and controlled temperature of 15°C, the average sewage temper...

This study presents performance of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor in treating liquefied fleshings (LFs) with tannery wastewater (TWW) using liquefaction reactor (LR). With increase in recirculation rate, methane production increased in LR than in UASB reactor due to methanogenic bacteria in LR. UASB reactor with continuous feeding of LFs and TWW resulted with cumulative methane ...

Calcium is essential to the growth of several strains of microorganisms involved in anaerobic digestion. It has also been found to be effective in speeding up granulation of anaerobic sludges. But there are reports that the metal can exert a harmful effect on the performance of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor by causing the ‘cementing’ of some of the active sludge in the reactor,...

The simultaneous dynamic equations for substrate and biomass mass were used to assess the UASB reactor performance of municipal wastewater. The dynamic model equations were solved by using a m.file in MATLAB2011a command window and dynamic equations for substrate and biomass. The objectives of this paper are (1) To develop a simple CSTR model for simulation of UASB reactors performance assuming...

The up flow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB)-digester system is one promising low temperature anaerobic process for sewage treatment. In this study, the effects of height of UASB sludge transfer (HUST) on performance of a UASB-digester system treating sewage at 15°C were studied. The studied HUSTs were 27, 47 and 67 cm in the UASB sludge bed of 70 cm, from which sludge was transferred to the digeste...

The anaerobic treatment of low strength domestic sewage at low temperature is an attractive and important topic at present. The upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB)-digester system is one of the anaerobic systems to challenge low temperature and concentrations. The effect of sludge recirculation rate on a UASB-digester system treating domestic sewage at 15 °C was studied in this research. A sludg...

Anaerobic digestion has been proposed as an alternative to the conventional disposal methods of burial, incineration, rendering and aerobic composting. A temperature-phased system consisting of one UASB (at 55 degrees C) and three leach-bed reactors (at ambient temperatures) was tested for its efficiencies in treating poultry mortality. The thermophilic UASB was difficult to start-up. It also s...

The current study presents a detailed evaluation and comparison between two integrated anaerobic–aerobic systems for biological wastewater treatment under equal conditions in all aspects (wastewater characteristics, climatic conditions, reactor sizing, even the measurement methods). examined are (i) hybrid upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (hybrid UASB) coupled with fixed-film activated (IFAS) (i...

Under anaerobic conditions, organic pollutants in wastewater are degraded by microbes producing methane and carbon dioxide. The degradation process is effective compared to the more conventional aerobic processes and produces only 5-10% of sludge. This saves considerably on cost associated with the sludge disposal. Among anaerobic technologies, the most popular ones is the upflow anaerobic slud...

In this study, we investigated the efficiency of dissolved methane (D-CH(4)) collection by degasification from the effluent of a bench-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating synthetic wastewater. A hollow-fiber degassing membrane module was used for degasification. This module was connected to the liquid outlet of the UASB reactor. After chemical oxygen demand (COD) remov...