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Color removal of real textile wastewater by sequential anaerobic and aerobic reactors

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Textile wastewater from the Pusan Dyeing Industrial Complex (PDIC) was treated utilizing a two-stage continuous system, composed of an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor and an activated sludge reactor. The effects of color and organic loading rates were studied by varying the hydraulic retention time and influent glucose concentration. The maximum color load to satisfy the legal discharge limit of color intensity in Korea (400 ADMI, unit of the American Dye Manufacturers Institute) was estimated to be 2,700 ADMI·L−1 day−1. This study indicates that the two-stage anaerobic/aerobic reaction system is potentially useful in the treatment of textile wastewater.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University, 609-735, Pusan, Korea

    You-Kwan Oh, Yu-Jin Kim, Seung-Koo Song & Sunghoon Park

  2. Institute for Environmental Technology and Industry, Pusan National University, 609-735, Pusan, Korea

    You-Kwan Oh, Yu-Jin Kim & Sunghoon Park

  3. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 305-701, Daejeon, Korea

    Yeonghee Ahn

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Oh, YK., Kim, YJ., Ahn, Y. et al. Color removal of real textile wastewater by sequential anaerobic and aerobic reactors. Biotechnol Bioproc E 9, 419–422 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02933068

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