14 Articles found
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Meat Processing Plant Wastewater
Traditional Alum & Polymer versus Floccin 1106 The wastewater is currently being treated using conventional chemistry (alum and a polymer). The facility is paying surcharges due to levels of COD at 1,600 ppm and suspended solids TSS) at 500 ...
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Potato Salad Manufacturer
The manufacturing of potato salad creates a high BOD and Fats, Oil & Grease wastewater that was costing over $6,000/month in surcharges to treat by the local POTW. The facility investigated the use of the Floccin product and found that Floccin-H ...
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Potato Cooked
A large producer of pre-cooked potatoes was having a problem disposing of the wastewater from the washing and cooking process. The water was to be used on the growing field, but had a COD, TSS and nitrogen content in excess of allowable limits, see ...
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Poultry Food Case Study
This facility processes, seasons, cooks, and flash-freezes poultry for the food industry. They process about 500,000 lbs. of chicken per day and are trying to increase their production. Their existing wastewater system was limited in its ability to ...
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Poultry Food Short
This facility processes, seasons, cooks, and flash-freezes poultry products and wanted to increase their production. The existing wastewater system could not meet the discharge requirements to the local POTW (city) and more stringent limits were ...
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Rendering Plant
Animal Rendering Plant Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Recycling This facility renders animals as a means to recover protein. The facility generates wastewater flow of 75,000 gal/day with high levels of BOD ...
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Rice Milk
A container of commercially available rice milk was obtained and diluted with water to make a 10% v/v solution. A series of jar tests were run to determine the most appropriate FloccinAgentTM to utilize in the removal of the Suspended Solids and ...
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Soy Milk Manufacturing
This facility manufacturer Soy based products to include Soy milk and other dairy substitute products. The facility generates wastewater from their manufacturing operations as well as sanitization. The treatment system includes flow equalization for ...
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Tractor Manufacturer
The wastewater from the tractor manufacturing facility was being trucked to a wastewater treatment facility 120 miles away for treatment and disposal of the wastewater. The wastewater consists of heavy cutting oils/lubricants that could not be ...
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Chicken Skin Wastewater
The wastewater from a poultry processing plant contained almost exclusively skins, and high concentrations of fat for approximately 8 hours of the production day. This wastewater created heavy blinding problems on their dewatering system. In lab ...
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Citrus Juice Processor
A large citrus juice processor was using conventional chemistry (alum as the coagulant and a cationic flocculant) to treat their wastewater. The pH has wide swings from a low of 3.0 during processing to a high of 11.5 from their sanitizing steps. ...
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Improving Dairy Wastewater
Dairy Wastewater Treatment The typical dairy wastewater treatment system has a “separator” screen that removes about 10-15% of the larger solids from the flush water. The solids are returned as bedding for the cows, and the dairy ...
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Treating Winery Wastewater Without Ponds
Wineries traditionally treat their wine process wastewater with aerobic (aerated) ponds to biologically degrade the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). The treated wastewater from these ponds needs to have a BOD of 40 ppm or less (depending on the ...
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Case Study: Garlic Processor
Utilizing Bio System’s Microbes and Aeromix Systems to develop a stable biomass and eliminate odors from a food processing pond.A California garlic processor had a persistent odor problem with their wastewater pond and had been under increased ...