Technical Bulletin No. 0596: Experience with Anaerobic Treatment of Forest Products Industry Effluents and Sludges in Laboratory, Pilot Plant and Full Scale Installations

Industry concerns regarding increasing energy costs associated with the higher degree of treatment of wastewaters now required have been a major factor in the recent renewed interest in anaerobic processes for the treatment of effluents from the forest products industry. This bulletin describes laboratory and pilot plant studies of a broad spectrum of process effluents subjected to anaerobic treatment. A number of full-scale systems which have evolved from these studies are described in detail.