Treatment of anti-osmotic drug based pharmaceutical effluent in an upflow anaerobic fluidized bed system

摘要

During the production of Cephradine (a mian constituent of anit-osmotic drug) a large quantity of concentrated effluent was produced. The main polluting compounds in this effluent are osmotic drug, acetic acid and ammonia. The feasibility of using a fludized bed reactor under anaerobic condition with bioaugmentation to treat anti-osmotic drug based pharmaceutical effluent was evaluated.