Food industry uses large amounts of water for various purposes, including refrigeration and cleanliness, as raw material, as sterile water for food, transportation, cooking and dissolution auxiliary water etc. In principle the water used in the food industry can be recycled as process water and cooling or boiler feed water. As a consequence of diverse consumption, quantity and composition of wa...

The use of commercially available cation and anion exchange membranes to generate power from industrial wastewater obtained from three different industries (food, alcohol and dairy factories) without the addition of external microorganisms or chemicals by using microbial fuel cells (MFCs) was investigated. The results indicate that the original mixed culture of microorganisms presented in waste...

A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program has been initiated in the North Bosque River Watershed in Texas, USA, where point and nonpoint sources of pollution are of a concern. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), which had been validated for flow and sediment and nutrient transport, was applied to quantify the effects of Best Management Practices (BMPs) related to dairy manure management ...

A fungal consortium including Aspergillus niger, Mucor hiemalis and Galactomyces geotrichum was tested for the treatment of dairy wastewater. The bio-augmentation method was tested at lab-scale (4 L), at pilot scale (110 L) and at an industrial scale in Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP). The positive impact of fungal addition was confirmed when fungi was beforehand accelerated by pre-culture o...

Manure management is an integral concern of Florida dairymen. Wastewater from nine dairy sprayfields on seven north Florida dairies with overhead sprinkler or gun irrigation facilities was collected biweekly from early September 1992 to Janu­ ary 1993. Samples were taken from the pump area of either anaerobic lagoons or settling ponds, rainfall, and from effluent plus rainfall in sprayfields. A...

The fiercely competitive nature of the US beverage industry will drive the fluid milk sector of the dairy industry to improve product quality and shelf life to enable dairy beverages to compete with innovative new introductions as well as with currently popular shelf-stable products. The recent substantial growth in the volume of flavored milk sales specifically suggests that attention is neede...

In recent decades, urban encroachment and increasing environmental regulation have impacted California’s dairy industry. A complicated set of environmental legislation affects dairies in the state, and can differ depending on location, creating the possibility for within-state pollution havens. This article details the regional, state, and federal environmental regulation of California’s dairy ...

Diary industry in China has been in deep crisis since a series of quality scandals were exposed to public in 2008. Thanks to the traceability system in dairy supply chain and the growth of the internet, providing traceable dairy product information to the public is viewed as one of the best ways, mostly in terms of feasibility, to overcome the trust crisis and to promote the development of the ...