Project number
16098
Organization
Shamrock Foods
Academic year
2016-2017
The dairy-processing industry creates a significant amount of wastewater contaminated with biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, and heavy metals.
Energy demands of traditional wastewater-treatment methods are high, and therefore costly. Aerobic bioreactors known as vermifilters are a proven low-energy method of reducing these contaminants in wastewater.
The team researched, developed and tested a small-scale vermifiltration process that will scale up to remediate the 500,000 gallons of dairy wastewater per day produced by the sponsor’s plant.
Energy demands of traditional wastewater-treatment methods are high, and therefore costly. Aerobic bioreactors known as vermifilters are a proven low-energy method of reducing these contaminants in wastewater.
The team researched, developed and tested a small-scale vermifiltration process that will scale up to remediate the 500,000 gallons of dairy wastewater per day produced by the sponsor’s plant.