Biological and Abiotic Color Reduction of Paper Mill Effluents during Anaerobic Composting
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 7
Abstract
Biological and abiotic sorptions as well as kinetic experiments were performed to elucidate the mechanism by which color was being removed from paper mill effluents using anaerobic composting. Experiments were performed using pulp mill upset tank wastewater and E stage filtrate . Color removal experiments using active and gamma sterilized compost showed that the color removal capacity for both wastewaters was nine times higher when using active compost than for those reactors using gamma sterilized compost. Final decolorization for pulp mill upset tank and E stage filtrate was 91 and 83%, respectively, while only 33% decolorization was achieved with gamma sterilized compost. Kinetic tests also showed higher color degradation rates when using active compost compared to sterilized compost. Additional experiments demonstrated that biological color removal appears to be robust with respect to pH and is largely unaffected by pH over a range from pH 5 to 10, typical values for the effluents in paper mills. The effect of aging in sorption were tested and results showed that virgin compost could establish a microbial population in less than 50 days which resulted in a compost with sorption capacity similar to the aged compost.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 7 • July 2010
Pages: 701 - 708
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Received: Sep 23, 2008
Accepted: Nov 30, 2009
Published online: Dec 2, 2009
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