{"title":"A note on anaerobic treatment of currant-finishing wastewater in downflow anaerobic filters and the effect of media design on their performance","authors":"N. Athanasopoulos, J. Kouinis, A. Papadimitriou","doi":"10.1016/0269-7483(90)90074-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two downflow anaerobic filters with different plastic media of the same specific surface area, treating currant-finishing wastewater are described. COD removal for modular plastic media with a cross-flow design was 80% and 75% for loadings of 8 and 10 kg COD/m<sup>3</sup> day respectively. COD removal for pall-rings media gradually decreased from 90% to 57% as loadings gradually increased from 0·6 to 6 kg/m<sup>3</sup> day. The downflow anaerobic filters have a low performance compared with other high-rate anaerobic reactors, the UAF, UASB and AFB.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100177,"journal":{"name":"Biological Wastes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0269-7483(90)90074-3","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biological Wastes","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0269748390900743","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Two downflow anaerobic filters with different plastic media of the same specific surface area, treating currant-finishing wastewater are described. COD removal for modular plastic media with a cross-flow design was 80% and 75% for loadings of 8 and 10 kg COD/m3 day respectively. COD removal for pall-rings media gradually decreased from 90% to 57% as loadings gradually increased from 0·6 to 6 kg/m3 day. The downflow anaerobic filters have a low performance compared with other high-rate anaerobic reactors, the UAF, UASB and AFB.