EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENTS OF WASTEWATER FROM FIBER BOARD MANUFACTURING

摘要

Wastewater from fiber board manufacture consisting in a mixture of Pinus radiata, Eucaliptus globulus and Laureliopsis phillipiana (tepa) (3:1:1) has been studied in laboratory scale activated sludge reactors with organic load rate range of 50-1700 gCOD/m(3).d. A stable operation at high organic load rate with hydraulic retention time of one day was achieved. Purification efficiencies up to 90% of COD removal could be achieved in an activated sludge treatment of fiber board wastewater working with 1 day HRT for wood log cooking wastewater and with 4 days HRT when glueing wastewater is added to the cooking wastewater treatment. Suspended solids, color and phenol concentration were negligible in the efluent of the activated sludge system. [References: 13]