BIOTREATMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATERS: AN IDEAL APPLICATION FOR MBRs
In September 1998, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) promulgated the final rules regarding wastewater effluent guidelines and standards for the pharmaceutical industry. The membrane biological reactor (MBR) represents an ideal biosystem configuration for treatment
of pharmaceutical wastewaters, typically variable in composition and volume, and normally containing a number of slowly biodegradable organic compounds. This paper will discuss full scale application of the MBR technology at two different pharmaceutical plant sites in the United States to
meet the pretreatment regulations prior to wastewater discharge to the local publicly owned treatment works (POTW). For each of the case studies presented, the use of an MBR has significantly reduced off-site wastewater disposal costs, and the plants that installed the systems are on track
for rapid payback on their capital investment.
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Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 2003
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