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Method for anaerobic wastewater treatment

US4597872A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 1984
Grant dateJul 1, 1986
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E50/30
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of treating wastewater from closed manufacture of mechanical or chemi-mechanical cellulose pulp, which treatment is carried out in a hydrolysis and acid fermentation step and a methane fermentation step with subsequent sludge separation and recycling of separated sludge.

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