Dairy, Meat & Poultry Industries
Ecologix provides comprehensive wastewater treatment technologies and services for every facet of meat, dairy, and poultry industries. By removing grit or feathers, while reducing BOD and TSS, we will bring your facility into compliance. Whether you need a combination of water treatment products, a mobile treatment system, or a complete treatment plant, Ecologix can assure you’re provided the right equipment for the job, designed to meet the specific challenge at hand.
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Poultry Treatment Process
Poultry processing plants, as in many other food processing activities typically are high water users. For broilers, 5 to 10 gallons of water are used to process one 5 pound, average-sized chicken. When processing turkey the volume of water is even higher with average weight of slaughtered turkeys exceeding 4 times that of a chicken. It is not unusual for a typical poultry processor to generate 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 gallons of wastewater daily.
This water will be laden with fats, proteins and carbohydrates from meat, fat, blood, skin and feathers. The water is also polluted with a fair amount of grit and other inorganic matter. Waste load can be determined by a number of different measurements, including BOD (biochemical oxygen demand), TSS (total suspended solids concentration), COD (the chemical oxygen demand), and FOG (fats, oil and grease), but poultry plant wastewater is most often tested for BOD which is a measure of the amount of oxygen needed to degrade the organic matter (feathers, fat and blood) in the wastewater.
Poultry processing plants are required to remove the majority of all soluble and particulate organic material in their generated wastewater prior to any discharge from the plant. This process needs to take place in order for the plant to be in compliance with local, state and federal environmental regulations. Ecologix Environmental Systems custom configures a full treatment system that can screen and treat the wastewater to discharge levels that meet or often exceed local municipal requirements. Please review further our current offerings for the poultry industry and contact us today to learn more about solutions we can offer your business.
Dairy Industry
Effluents typically have the following characteristics:
- Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), with an average ranging from 0.8 to 2.5 kilograms per metric ton (kg/t) of milk in the untreated effluent
- Chemical oxygen demand (COD), which is normally about 1.5 times the BOD level
- Total suspended solids (TSS), at 100–1,000 milligrams per liter (mg/l)
- Total dissolved solids (TDS): phosphorus (10–100 mg/l), and nitrogen (about 6% of the BOD level).
Cream, butter, cheese, and whey production are major sources of BOD in wastewater. The waste load equivalents of specific milk constituents are: 1 kg of milk fat = 3 kg COD; 1 kg of lactose = 1.13 kg COD; and 1 kg protein = 1.36 kg COD. The wastewater may contain pathogens from contaminated materials or production processes. A dairy often generates odors and, in some cases, dust, which also need to be controlled.
Ecologix Environmental Systems engineers and builds complete solutions to efficiently manage the wastewater treatment and odor control requirements of the dairy industry. Our solution includes the following benefits:
- Optimization of use of water and cleaning chemicals with option for recirculation of cooling waters.
- Segregation of effluents from sanitary installations, processing, and cooling (including condensation) systems; this would facilitate ability to recycle the wastewater.
- Energy recovery through use of heat exchangers for cooling and condensing.
- Use of high-pressure nozzles to minimize water usage.
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