Food and beverage manufacturing produces a complex wastewater effluent often difficult to treat due to its high salinity levels and heavy loading of contaminants.
Wastewater generated by these industries are typically turbid, with high concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), fats oils and grease (FOG), and soluble nutrients such as nitrogen (including ammonia) and phosphate.
Other typical characteristics of food processing wastewater are large seasonal variations, large hourly variations in concentration and type of contaminants, often large variations in wastewater flows through the processing day, and unbalanced concentrations of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, all of which complicates wastewater microbiological treatment.
Magnesium hydroxide is the strongest, and yet most gentle, pH and alkalinity buffer in the world. It locks in the neutralized pH by providing a residual buffer within the treated wastewater so that wide variations in flow, contaminants, and pH are far less detrimental.
Treated wastewater from food processing industries and farms can have a dual benefit. Treated wastewater can be recycled for land or crop irrigation to help cut down on the industries’ use of fresh water, and the carbonaceous contaminants in wastewater can be converted to biogas (methane) and used to produce electricity.
Anaerobic digestion is a natural microbiological process that converts organic matter present in wastewater sludge into biogas for electricity, as well as significantly reducing the contaminant load in the treated water.
The energy produced from biogas can be fed back into the grid or used in other parts of the production process, which represents a real opportunity to reduce energy costs.
IER is a supplier of environmentally friendly water and wastewater treatment chemicals and equipment.
IER offers Magnesium Hydroxide-based products as safe, earth-friendly alternatives to the use of caustic soda for pH neutralization, along with proprietary polymer solids removal technologies.
Owned by Calix, an Australian company with global operations, IER brings 20 years of experience working with plant engineers and operators to offer the most cost-effective solutions for their specific needs.
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