ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECTS IN MANAGEMENT OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS

Abstract

Many wastewater treatment plants operating today in various industries have one or morebiological treatment component. which could he either aerobic or anaerobic. or acombination of hoth. The type of biological treatment utiliscd will vary from one plant toanother depending on the nature of the wastewater treated. Industries such as chemicalprocess. pharmaccutical etc. have to pay more attention to their wastewater sent to thewastewater treatment plant as these wastewaters may contain substances in quantitieswhich can cause harmful effects to the living organisms in the biological treatment system.thus action should he taken 10 reduce these antimicrohial substances entering the hiologicaltreatment component of the wastewater treatment plant to levels to which the biologicalpopulation is more capable of handling those in the degradation process. An action tomanage this type of situation will call for the need for monitoring techniques or quantities.

In this concept paper. online and offline monitoring techniques of such substances and itsmanagemcnt concepts arc illucid.ucd. In monitoring wastewater the use of the parameterBOD and the inhibition chnractcristics of the microorganism were looked at with referenceto wastcwater from a pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.