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Food and Agricultural Wastewater Utilization and Treatment focuses on the cost-effective treatment technologies specific for food and agriculture wastewater and possible economical recovery of valuable substances from wastewater during common food processing and postharvest operations using innovative technologies. The technologies included in the book are not a mere collection of all known relevant technologies. Instead, priority consideration is given to those technologies that can not only solve the environmental problem of wastewater disposal but also reduce the wastewater management cost in the long run for food and agriculture industries. The book combines past decades of research on food and agricultural wastewater issues with an abundance of emerging research on innovative separation technologies to separate biological molecules from complex biological systems. Food technologists as well as environmental and agricultural engineers/scientists will find Food and Agricultural Wastewater Utilization and Treatment invaluable in their quest of improving food and agricultural wastewater management.
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Food and Agricultural Wastewater Utilization and Treatment
Food and Agricultural Wastewater Utilization and Treatment
Sean X. Liu Department of Food Science Rutgers University
Sean X. Liu, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Food Science and serves as the Director of the Bioresource Engineering Graduate Program at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from East China University of Science and Technology and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees, also in chemical engineering, from Kansas State University. He is the author of more than 50 technical journal articles, book chapters, reports, and proceedings related to wastewater treatment and food processing. © 2007 Blackwell Publishing All rights reserved Blackwell Publishing Professional 2121 State Avenue, Ames, Iowa 50014, USA Orders: Office: Fax: Web site:
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CONTENTS
Preface Chapter 1
ix Introduction
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Characteristics of Agricultural and Food Wastewater 3 Material Balances and Stoichiometry 21 Fluid Flow Rate and Mass Loading 24 Kinetics and Reaction Rates 24 Theoretical Modeling and Design of Biological Reactors Process Economics 31
Chapter 2
Basic Microbiology in Wastewater Treatment Introduction 35 Structures of Cells 36 Important Microorganisms in Wastewater Microbial Metabolism 44 Nitrification 46 Denitrification 48
Chapter 3
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Physicochemical Wastewater Treatment Processes Introduction 51 Equalizat