External AnMBR Solutions for High-Load Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Industries producing high-load wastewater like dairy, distilleries, slaughterhouses, confectionery, and fish processing benefit from our external AnMBR solutions. These solutions use tubular UF modules with a complete-mix digester, handling high organic loads (OLR up to 8 – 10 kg COD/m³·day). UF membranes ensure biomass retention within the anaerobic digester, enhancing digestion, making it robust, and increasing biogas production. Achieve over 98% COD removals in a single-step AnMBR, avoiding post-treatment and enabling reuse or high-quality water production through reverse osmosis.
Advantages over conventional granular technologies:
Better effluent quality
AnMBR achieves the highest COD removal, allowing the discharge to the municipal sewer without further treatment in most cases.
Biogas production
Ability to handle high TSS and FOG concentrations, simplifying the pretreatment and maximizing the conversion of organics into biogas.
Robust
UF membranes avoid the washout of biomass, resulting in rapid start-ups, specialized microbial communities and robustness against organic or toxic shocks.
Low Sludge Production
Eliminating the DAF pretreatment greatly reduces the chemical consumption and avoids the generation of big amounts of sludge, that require on-site treatment or need to be hauled away.