Open AccessCombination of Ultrafiltration and Biological Treatment for Product and Water Recovery
Author(s) -
Schreiner A.,
Goers B.,
Wiesmann U.,
Wozny G.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
engineering in life sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.547
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1618-2863
pISSN - 1618-0240
DOI - 10.1002/1618-2863(200203)2:3<86::aid-elsc86>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - ultrafiltration (renal) , filtration (mathematics) , flexibility (engineering) , process engineering , sewage treatment , product (mathematics) , wastewater , membrane technology , production (economics) , pulp and paper industry , biochemical engineering , process (computing) , waste management , environmental science , membrane , environmental engineering , chemistry , engineering , chromatography , computer science , mathematics , geometry , biochemistry , statistics , economics , macroeconomics , operating system
Multi‐product plants are built to allow for increased flexibility, especially in the field of batch and just‐in‐time production. As an industrial example, the production of surfactants and detergents is examined. The increasing frequency of product change at the plants results in a high amount of wastewater with changing composition from cleaning in place (CIP) processes. Membrane filtration and biological treatment of CIP wastewaters are investigated. The process design is optimized by mathematical model calculations.