Studying the Effected of some Operational Factors on the Performance of Poultry Wastewater Biological Treatment Efficiency for Reuse in Agricultural Irrigation

Abstract

The tremendous outspread of technical poultry slaughter houses lead to augmentation of pollution from their wastewater discharges. Treatment of such wastes is of paramount importance for both environmental protection and water conservation especially in situations of water deficiency and scarcity. The present research work is initiated towards addressing poultry waste problems and proposal of remedial sustainable solutions. It focused on some operational factors influencing biological treatment efficiency of technical poultry slaughter houses including detention time and organic load. Treatment efficiency is observed to increase with increase in detention time up to eight hours. This optimum detention time achieved treated effluent properties in harmony with waste water standards for agricultural irrigation.