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Environmental, Technical, and Economic Evaluation of a New Treatment for Wastewater from Slaughterhouses

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The wastewater treatment has a fundamental role for all the industrial processes, being a crucial part in the water cycle. The meat industry around the world has severe problems associated with the huge freshwater requirements that increase with the population growth. However, nowadays, the most used slaughterhouse wastewater treatment (SWWT) system has negative environment impacts. Hence, the inclusion of the life cycle assessment method, as decision technique in the design and configuration of the treatment train for these industries, results in an attractive innovation. Particularly for the SWWT, the aerobic process is the most used approach; however, its high-energy requirements increase significantly the associated total cost. On the other hand, the upflow anaerobic sludge blanket process has been reported as an attractive treatment, but this needs a secondary treatment for achieving the environmental regulations for some pollutants. Therefore, this paper presents a techno-economic–environmental–social evaluation as a sustainable alternative in wastewater treatment train configuration based on the obtained results of the Trail and Refrigerator of the city of Morelia in Mexico. The results show that with the new configuration, the energetic requirement is reduced by 76%; thus, the operational cost is minimized in the same way, while the environmental impact is reduced by 30% with the integration of anaerobic and aerobic processes.

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Abbreviations

SWWT:

Slaughterhouse wastewater treatment

LCA:

Life cycle assessment

UASB:

Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket

WWS:

Slaughterhouse wastewater

MPN:

Most probable number

BOD:

Biochemical oxygen demand

COD:

Chemical oxygen demand

TN:

Total nitrogen

TP:

Total phosphorous

FOG:

Fats, oils, and greases

TSS:

Total suspended solids

TDS:

Total dissolved solids

EIA:

Environmental impact analysis

EIAP:

Aerobic process environmental impact analysis

EIANP:

Anaerobic process environmental impact analysis

EIA-WW:

Untreatment wastewater discharge environmental impact analysis

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  1. Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio V1, Ciudad Universitaria, 58060, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Claudia Palomares-Rodríguez, Sergio Iván Martínez-Guido, José Apolinar-Cortés, Ma del Carmen Chávez-Parga & José María Ponce-Ortega

  2. Basic Science Department, Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Morelia, Carretera Morelia Salamanca Kilómetro 6.5, Los Ángeles, 58100, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Carmen Cecilia García-Castillo

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Palomares-Rodríguez, C., Martínez-Guido, S.I., Apolinar-Cortés, J. et al. Environmental, Technical, and Economic Evaluation of a New Treatment for Wastewater from Slaughterhouses. Int J Environ Res 11, 535–545 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-017-0047-x

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