Brewery wastewater treatment using laboratory scal

Brewery wastewater treatment using laboratory scale aerobic sequencing batch reactorBrewerywastewatertreatmentusinglaboratoryscaleaerobicsequencingbatchreactorB.F.Bakarea,*,K.Shabangua,b,M.ChettybaFacultyofEngineering,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering,MangosuthuUniversityofTechnology,P.O.Box12363Jacobs,Durban4026,SouthAfricabFacultyofEngineeringandBuiltEnvironment,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering,DurbanUniversityofTechnology,P.O.Box1334,Durban4000,SouthAfricaarticleinfoArticlehistory:Received3September2016Receivedinrevisedform28June2017Accepted11August2017Keywords:ContinuouslowaerationCyclicaerationSequencingbatchreactorOrganiccomponentsTreatmentefficienciesSludgeabstractThisstudyevaluatestheperformanceoftwolaboratoryscaleaerobicsequencingbatchreactoroperatedundercontinuouslowaerationandcyclicaerationschemeforthetreatmentofwastewatergeneratedfromalocalbreweryinDurbanSouthAfrica.Thecontinuouslowaerationschemewasintendedtodetermineitseffectontheperformanceofthereactorintermsoforganicmateria