Treatment of catfish processing wastewater by the combination of anaerobic and aerobic package cage rotating biological contactors

Abstract

The study aimed to diversify the treatment technology of catfish processing wastewater. The experiments were implemented on lab-scale package cage rotating biological contactors with the first stage in anaerobic condition and the second stage in the aerobic condition, using PVC flexible conduit medium. The selected hydraulic retention time of anaerobic stage was 12 hours, and that of aerobic rotating package cage biological contactor was 4 hour 12 minutes. The results showed that almost monitoring parameters (pH, SS, DO, COD, BOD₅, TKN, P_total) met the national standards of QCVN 11-MT:2015/BTNMT (column A), except ⁺NH₄ only reached the QCVN 11-MT:2015/BTNMT (column B). The results confirmed that combining both anaerobic and aerobic package cage rotating biological contactors with PVC flexible conduict medium could apply to treat catfish processing wastewater.