Idris, Azni

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Research Directory: Part 1 --- Section 1: R&D Products I Environmental SciencesBioFiI ._ Biofilter Technology for Waste TreatmentWastewater generated by the housing and industrial areas continues to pose athreat to the river water quality. Wastewater treatment system must be ableto cope with large pollution load and as well must be very effective to treat different typesof liquid effluent at different concentration.BioF11technology is a simple and innovative Biofllterprocess, which Is capable of treating high strength organic effluentat minimum operating cost. The BioFil process consists of upflowfiltration through a biological bed of plastic media, which is sub-merged, and fIoatfng, The plastic media used is called Cosmo-balland it is specially designed to provide very large surface for bacterialattachment. The anaerobic BioFiI process utilises the naturally occur-ring micro-organisms in the absence of oxygen to convert complexorganics into methane and carbon dioxide. Cosmo-ball media/or BioFil systemFull scale and pilot studies confirm the suitability of BioFil technology to treat large variety of effluent such assewage, paper mill, poultry processing and palm oil mill. The technology was innovated to provide less space,use less power and be more "environmental friendly'. There are two versions developed to treat specific wastestreams. The anaerobic BioFil is targeted to destroy high strength effluent exceeding 5,000 mg/I to 150,000mg/1. The aerobic BioFlI (known as BioFiI-AE:) Is capable of eliminating residual BOD in sewage and industrialeffluent to below 10 mg/I.The BioFiI process is more superior to the conventional anaerobic digester in that it operates with very shorthydraulic retention times (often between 1 to 5 days for high organic wastes) and takes high organic loadings,thus reducing reactor size, land area requirement and capital costs.BioFiI technology is licensed to Pakar Management Technology (M) 5dn Bhd in 2000 for applications in sewageand industrial sectors.For further information, kindly contact:Prof. Dr. Azni JdrisDepartment of Chemical and Environmental EngineeringFaculty of EngineeringUniversiti Putra Malaysia43400 Ul'M, Serdang. SeJangorMalaysiaTel: +6(H 8946 6.~02. Fax: +60Cl-S656 7120E-mail: azni@eng.upm.edu.my45

Biofil - biofilter technology for waste treatment

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Biofil - biofilter technology for waste treatment

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