About 85% of fresh water intake in an abattoir will become wastewater. Slaughter and evisceration areas consume the largest amount of water with the majority being used for cleaning and sterilising ...

Upstream treatment is the first set of wastewater treatment processes. Its task is to prepare the wastewater for discharge to sewer or further treatment using biological treatment processes. Meat pr...

Anaerobic ponds play an important role in the treatment of meat processing wastewater. Their key function is to reduce the level of organic contaminants such as Biological Oxygen Demand over five da...

Aerobic ponds are typically shallow (less than 2 metres), large ponds which are commonly found downstream of anaerobic ponds. Their main purpose is to reduce BOD5 concentrations to levels suitabl...

Biogas is the product of anaerobic biological breakdown of organic substances. It is produced by any anaerobic technology when conditions are suitable for methane production and can be generated by ...

Nitrogen present in meat processing wastewater are termed a “nutrient”, since they are essential elements for life.  They largely derive from proteins dissolved into wastewater from...