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Effluent from pharmaceutical industry contains disintegrated form of the drugs - high chemical oxygen demand (COD), volatile solids and organic solvent. Reducing COD, TDS and ammonia using Sequencing Batch Reactor Activated sludge unsteady state process All unit operations – aeration, nitrification, denitrification, settling & decanting in one reactor Performance estimation by COD, DO, pH and total solids measurement Previous studies on SBR Pharmaceutical Effluent Treatment Pharmaceutical Effluent Treatment Using Sequencing Batch Reactor Using Sequencing Batch Reactor municipal waste - Umble & Ketchum (1997) slaughter house waste - Masse & Masse (2001) food and dairy - Torrijos et al (2001) landfill leachate - Neczaj et al., 2005

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Page 1: Pharmaceutical Effluent Treatment Using Sequencing Batch Reactor

Effluent from pharmaceutical industry contains disintegrated form of the drugs - high chemical oxygen demand (COD), volatile solids and organic solvent.

Reducing COD, TDS and ammonia using Sequencing Batch Reactor

Activated sludge unsteady state process All unit operations – aeration, nitrification,

denitrification, settling & decanting in one reactor Performance estimation by COD, DO, pH and total

solids measurement Previous studies on SBR –

Pharmaceutical Effluent Treatment Pharmaceutical Effluent Treatment Using Sequencing Batch Reactor Using Sequencing Batch Reactor

•municipal waste - Umble & Ketchum (1997)•slaughter house waste - Masse & Masse (2001)•food and dairy - Torrijos et al (2001)•landfill leachate - Neczaj et al., 2005

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About 81 % COD removal in 24 hour run and 90% removal in 48 hour operation

Better solids removal or sludge settling was observed in the anaerobic phase.

Suspended solids concentration increase in aerobic phase.

This may be due to microbial growth or resuspension due to aeration.