Abstract
As the milk processing wastewater contains large amount of soluble substances and its quality and quantity changes widely, it is not easy to treat efficiently. In this work, we investigated two biological processes for milk processing wastewater treatment, the oxidation ditch process for S Milk Y plant and the B3 process for S Milk G plant. The comparison was made using the one year operation results of these two full-scale plants focusing on the removal of organic matters and nutrients(N, P). Based on the steady state data of the B3 process, hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 3.2 days and sludge retention time (SRT) of 13.8 days were found to be appropriate for milk processing wastewater. Under these conditions the removal efficiencies of organic matters in terms of BOD, CODMn and SS were 99.7%, 98.4% and 99.5%, respectively. In addition, the removal of T-N and T-P amounted to 91.9% and 96.9%, respectively. Therefore, it was confirmed that organic matter and nutrients in milk processing wastewater can be effectively treated with the B3 process if proper operating conditions are maintained. When compared with the oxidation ditch process, the B3 process showed greater removal efficiencies especially for nitrogen and phosphorus.
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