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The purification of cannery waste waters in biological filters
Author(s) -
Dickinson Denis
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740050207
Subject(s) - effluent , filtration (mathematics) , environmental science , waste management , wastewater , pulp and paper industry , engineering , environmental engineering , mathematics , statistics
The waste waters from fruit and vegetable canneries are among the strongest of organic trade effluents and, moreover, occur in large volumes. By reason of the high proportion of carbohydrate they contain, their purification by conventional methods was not expected to be easy. The present paper summarizes the experience gained over a period of several years in the design and operation of a biological filtration plant for the purification of the wastes from a medium‐sized fruit and vegetable cannery, operating throughout the year and manufacturing the whole range of products normally made in such factories in Great Britain.