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Journal Article 
Sequential (anaerobic/aerobic) biological treatment of malt whisky wastewater 
Uzal, N; Gokcay, CF; Demirer, GN 
2003 
1 
Process Biochemistry
ISSN: 1359-5113
EISSN: 0032-9592 
39 
3 
279-286 
WOS:000186904900002 
The anaerobic treatability of malt whisky distillery wastewater was investigated. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) experiments were conducted both with and without basal medium (BM) to observe the effect of nutrient supplementation. For batch reactors containing no nutrients but only NaHCO3, net total gas production at the end of 29 days were observed as 0.019 m3 gas/kg COD removed. With nutrient supplemented reactors the net total gas production was 0.020 m3 gas/kg COD. Continuous reactor experiments were carried out in two stage upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors. These experiments indicated that the two stage UASB reactor configuration is an efficient system for malt whisky wastewater treatment until up to 33 866 mg/l influent COD concentration. Following the UASB experiments aerobic experiments in batch reactors were also conducted and further COD and BOD removal of up to 55 and 70%, respectively, were achieved. 
sequential (anaerobic/aerobic) treatment; distillery wastewater; whisky; UASB