Treatment of Pharma Effluent using Anaerobic Packed Bed Reactor

D S Vijayan; A Mohan; C Nivetha; Vidhyalakshmi Sivakumar; Parthiban Devarajan; A Paulmakesh; S Arvindan

doi:10.1155/2022/4657628

Treatment of Pharma Effluent using Anaerobic Packed Bed Reactor

J Environ Public Health. 2022 May 17:2022:4657628. doi: 10.1155/2022/4657628. eCollection 2022.

Authors

D S Vijayan¹, A Mohan², C Nivetha¹, Vidhyalakshmi Sivakumar³, Parthiban Devarajan¹, A Paulmakesh⁴, S Arvindan⁵

Affiliations

¹ Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
² Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, India.
³ Saveetha School of Engineering, Chennai, India.
⁴ Wolaita Sodo University, Āreka, Ethiopia.
⁵ Anand School of Architecture, Chennai, India.

Abstract

The treatment of pharmaceutical effluent using an appropriate technology has become so important. Anaerobic packed bed reactor is an efficient method for pharmaceutical effluent treatment because of the high organic content present in it. In this study, a heavy-polluted pharma effluent is treated using an anaerobic packed bed reactor. The performance of the anaerobic reactor was identified with respect to chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, methane yield, and gas production. The results showed that COD was reduced from 73% to 60% for an organic loading rate (OLR) of 0.6036-1.7487 kg COD m^-3·d^-1. As the OLR increases, the removal efficiency of COD decreases gradually to around 52% for an OLR of 2.34 kg COD m^-3·d^-1.

Publication types

Retracted Publication

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis
Bioreactors*
Drug Industry*
Industrial Waste*
Waste Disposal, Fluid* / methods

Substances

Industrial Waste