Abstract
China has large amounts of effluents containing high organic loads. It is paying special attention to intensifying the process of biomethanation to increase the biogas production per unit of reactor volume and to reduce pollution. At present, a few plants have been realized such as two plants treating urban wastewater sludge, one plant working on effluents from the citric acid industry and three plants working with effluent from three alcohol distilleries. Biomethanation of waste liquor from pulp processing by lime has been studied on the laboratory scale and 79% COD removal has been obtained. An Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) pilot plant of 24 m3 fed with filtered residual liquor from a distillery produces 5 m3/m3 digester per day with a COD removal of 93%. Until now the extension of biomethanation of industrial effluents has been limited because the COD content of the effluents is still beyond the effluent discharge standards.
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