Happy Fish Due To or In Spite Of an Optimized Wastewater Treatment System?
MBAA TQ vol. 42, no. 4, 2005, pp.
309-314 |
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Vera Groot Kormelinck. Paques B.V., PO Box 52, 8560 AB Balk, The Netherlands.
Abstract
The demands of excellent effluent quality have to be met by Karlsberg Brewery
in Homburg, Germany. They discharge their purified wastewater into a small
river. A necessary condition for discharging into this river is that there
should be no ecological damage to the existing ecosystem. Until the late 1990s,
Karlsberg Brewery discharged its wastewater into the municipal wastewater
treatment plant. Economic factors and the conviction that the effluent demands
could be met with an industrial wastewater treatment plant made Karlsberg decide
to build its own plant. This paper provides the historical background of the
project and a description of the technologies applied. Operational data,
including any problems that occurred during startup, are discussed, as well as
the economic benefits of the wastewater treatment plant. This enables an
overview of the current state of the art in the treatment of brewery effluent.
Keywords: aerobic treatment, anaerobic treatment, BIOPAQ� IC, brewery
effluent, wastewater
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S�ntesis
La Cervecer�a Carlsberg en Hamburgo, Alemania, descarga sus efluentes
tratadas en un peque�o r�o, por lo que debe acatar normas muy estrictas en
cuanto a la calidad de estos efluentes, dado que son obligados a no causarle
da�os ecol�gicos al r�o como condici�n a que sigan descargando en �l. Hasta
fines de la d�cada de 1990, la Cervecer�a Carlsberg descargaba sus efluentes en
la planta de tratamiento municipal, pero factores econ�micos la llevaron a
construir su propia planta de tratamiento. Aqu� damos el fondo hist�rico del
proyecto y una descripci�n de la tecnolog�a aplicada. Se discuten los datos
operacionales y los problemas que surgieron en el arranque de la planta, as�
como los beneficios econ�micos de este proyecto. Esto dar� una idea del estado
actual del arte del tratamiento de efluentes cerveceras.
Palabras claves: tratamiento aer�bico, tratamiento anaer�bico, BIOPAQ�
IC, efluente cervecero, efluentes
