Anaerobic Treatment of Wastewater

This chapter provides an overview of the fundamentals and applications of anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. It discusses the fundamentals of anaerobic wastewater treatment processes and the effects of various environmental/physicochemical parameters on anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. The chapter describes the classifications of different types of anaerobic treatment processes based on mode of microbial growth. It demonstrates different types of reactors associated with anaerobic treatment processes and describes the anaerobic wastewater treatment process kinetics using different kinetic models. Anaerobic treatment technology has emerged as one of the best treatment processes for different types of wastewater. Anaerobic lagoons are used for high strength organic wastewater, such as industrial wastewaters or a mixture of industrial and domestic wastewaters. Anaerobic hybrid reactor integrates biological degradation of waste products in an anaerobic condition with membrane filtration.