Anaerobic fluidized bed reactor with sepiolite as support for anaerobic treatment of vinasse

Abstract

An anaerobic fluidized bed reactor, using sepiolite as support, for the treatment of distillery wastewater was started-up using a stepped loading regime with addition of methanol. Six different steady states at hydraulic retention times between 0.5 and 2.48 days were studied achieving a COD removal efficiency of 70.5 to 88.6%. © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers.