Review of Anaerobic Baffled Reactor for Treatment of Industrial Wastewater in Nigeria
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2024-06
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Abstract
Industrialization, although with its gain has also led to environmental
degradation. One of such degradation is pollution. Water we know is essential to life
but with industrialization, the existence is being greatly threatened. The need to treat
wastewater has become incontrovertibly important as man’s activities in the environment
has depleted the limited available water sources daily. These activities include
indiscriminate discharge of untreated wastewater into neighboring water bodies
thereby causing pollution to the environment and aquatic life. For years, conventional
wastewater treatment processes have been adopted and found reasonably successful
in treating effluents from wastewater in order to meet the required standard before
discharge. The review of the anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) in the management of
industrial wastewater is done in this chapter. The review considers the use of ABR in
Nigeria for the treatment of industrial wastewater. The ABR’s basic principle, applications,
merits, demerits and challenges (in Nigeria) is addressed.