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Cotton yarn and fabric finishing wastewater treatment in upflow anaerobic filter

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Wastewater from cotton yarn and fabric finishing was successfully treated in an upflow anaerobic filter at 35°C up to a COD loading of 1 Kgr COD/m3 · day; the COD removal varied from 50 to 90% and production of biogas was 0,2–0.4 L/g influent COD, having 70–80% CH4. At higher COD loading biogas production stopped although COD removal remainedca 50%.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Section of Analytical, Environmental and Applied Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Nikos Athanasopoulos

  2. Piraiki-Patraiki, Cotton Textile Company, Patras, Greece

    Theodore Karadimitris

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Athanasopoulos, N., Karadimitris, T. Cotton yarn and fabric finishing wastewater treatment in upflow anaerobic filter. Biotechnol Lett 10, 443–444 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01087447

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