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Biological treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater: kinetic modeling and prediction of effluent

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In this study three modeling approaches consisting Modified Stover-Kincannon, multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPANN) and B-Spline quasi interpolation were applied in order to predict effluent of up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor and also to find the reaction kinetics. At first run, the average total chemical oxygen demand (TCOD) removal efficiency was 48.3% with hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 26 h and 63.8% with HRT of 37 h, at OLR of 0.77–1.66 kg TCOD/m3 d. At the second run, UASB reactor operated with OLR of 1.94–3.1 kg TCOD/m3 d and achieved the average TCOD removal efficiency of 64.74 and 72.48% with HRT of 26 and 37 h, respectively. The Modified Stover-Kincannon performed well in terms of kinetic determination with a high value of regression coefficient over 0.98. The B-Spline quasi interpolation and MLPANN indicated a great fit for effluent prediction with average R of 0.9984 and 0.9986, and MSE of 157.6050 and 129.7796, respectively; however, they gave no information about reactions occurred in the system.

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We would like to acknowledge Sepidroud slaughterhouse factory for its cooperation in providing slaughterhouse wastewater sample.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Moein Besharati Fard & Seyed Ahmad Mirbagheri

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Alireza Pendashteh

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Javad Alavi

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• Performance of up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor.

• Effect of HRT on removal efficiency.

• Multi-layer perceptron and B-Spline quasi interpolation were used in order to predict the effluent of UASB reactor.

• Kinetic modeling of UASB reactor by modified Stover-Kincannon.

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Besharati Fard, M., Mirbagheri, S.A., Pendashteh, A. et al. Biological treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater: kinetic modeling and prediction of effluent. J Environ Health Sci Engineer 17, 731–741 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40201-019-00389-4

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