International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research
and Science (IJAERS)
Peer-Reviewed Journal
ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O)
Vol-9, Issue-5; May, 2022
Journal Home Page Available: https://ijaers.com/
Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.95.15
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Effluent Treatment System for Low Loads – Biodigester:
Case Study
Pedro Carlos Lemos da Costa
1
, Fabiano Battemarco da Silva Martins
2
, Marcelo de Jesus
Rodrigues da Nóbrega
3
, Luiz Affonso de Paula Junior
4
1
Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Gama e Souza University, Brazil
Email: pclemos.costa@gmail.com
2
Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Gama e Souza University and Santa Úrsula University, Brazil
Email: fabianobattemarco@gmail.com
3
Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Gama e Souza University and Santa Úrsula University, Brazil
Email: engmarcelocefet@terra.com.br
4
Department of Education Sciences, Columbia University of Paraguay, Paraguay
Email: luizaffonso1002@gmail.com
Received: 15 Apr 2022,
Received in revised form: 08 May 2022,
Accepted: 15 May 2022,
Available online: 23 May 2022
©2022 The Author(s). Published by AI
Publication. This is an open access article
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(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords— Compact System. Anaerobic
treatment. Sanitation.
Abstract— Water is an extremely important resource for the maintenance
of life on earth and several human activities depend on it for its
development, such as: agricultural production, industrial activities and
energy generation. It is estimated that in a short time this resource, which
has already been considered renewable, will be the object of conflict
between nations. In order to be able to continue enjoying this asset,
measures are needed to maintain the quality of water sources, such as the
proper treatment of sanitary sewage for the discharge of water bodies. In
this context, the present work aims to present a low load sanitary effluent
treatment equipment that can be adopted in homes and industries, the
Biodigester by the FIBROMAR company. This equipment has 03
chambers, where the first two work as an RAFA (Ascending Flow
Anaerobic Reactor) and the last as an Anaerobic Filter. It was installed
for evaluation in an industrial shed receiving the contribution of 10
people during business hours, where in 2015, after 06 months of use, the
analyzes performed showed efficiency values in the removal of 87% DBO
(61.00 mg/l) and final concentration of RNFT 25.00 mg/l efficiency of the
equipment to meet CONAMA No. 430/11 (supplementary No. 357/05) and
NT-202-R10 (INEA-RJ). Recently in 2021, the analyzes were repeated to
evaluate the system's functioning, the results showed DBO removal
efficiency 93% (8.00 mg/l) and Total Suspended Solids less than 10 mg/l,
remaining within the parameters of legislation previously evaluated and
in line with recent legislation (NOP 45 – CONEMA 90).
I. INTRODUCTION
Water is an extremely important resource for the
maintenance of life on the planet, from simple activities
such as consumption to agricultural and industrial
production and energy generation. It is considerate a
renewable natural resource, however, it is estimated that in
a few years it will be the object of conflict between nations
(DA COSTA, 2018).
One of the great challenges that humanity will face in
the coming years will be to reconcile the expansion of