Another important factor ...

Published March 31, 2017 10:48 by George Kafasis, Chemical Engineer (BSc,MSc)

Another important factor which you should consider is wether your effluent is BIO-DEGRADABLE. If yes then you can use aerobic treatment as well. In order to determine that you need to calclulate the ratio COD/BOD5. If this number is around 1,5 then most of your effluent is bio-degradable. If it's over 3 then most of your effluent is not, so you need to apply oxidation methods.

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Hi Eros, thank you for the comment. Can you give me an example of this set of microbes please ? The degradation of ammonia is a real pain, especially when it's in inorganic form.

Also remember that pharmaceutical waste might contain some traces of materials that could kill some microbes ??????

Published April 1, 2017 10:54 by George Kafasis, Chemical Engineer (BSc,MSc)

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hi George, the right microbe set can degrade what was not traditionally considered biodegradable. high levels of ammonia and benzene and phenolates are easily degraded. cheers

Published March 31, 2017 18:41 by Eros Kaw, Biocleaner Inc. - Chief Tech Support

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