• C.Baraniya
• Dr.C.Jodhi
• Dr.K.Rajan

Sugar industries have shown us great growth in size and number in most countries of the world. The sugar mill effluent is characteristically biodegradable with BOD5, of 1200 to 2400 mg/l and COD restricted to 2500 to 3500 mg/l. The biodegradability range of sugar mill effluent is from 0.5 to 0.71. The anaerobic reactor was assessed with a pilot model (15.6 litres) for the treatment of sugar mill effluent. The present study evaluates the performance of anaerobic reactor run under varying operating conditions, viz, influent flow rate (0.875, 1.850, 2.825, 3.800, and 4.75 lit/hr) and influent COD (2003.66, 2584.86, 3060.26, 3556.62 mg/l), OLR (0.026, 0.0345, 0.0412, 0.0479 kg.COD/m2), and HRT (4, 8, 12, 18 and 24 hrs) are interpreted for the respective conditions. The COD removal was observed for maximum of 89.88% with the maximum biogas yield was observed at 0.28 m3/kg COD removed. Furthermore, neural network model and multiple regression models were successfully used to develop a kinetic model of the experimental data with a high correlation coefficient.

sugar mill effluent, UASBR, kinetic model, neural network model, multiple regression

"Mathematical Modelling of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor for Treating Sugar Mill Effluent", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.779-782, May-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805550.pdf

"Mathematical Modelling of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor for Treating Sugar Mill Effluent", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp779-782, May-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805550.pdf