%0 Journal Article
%T Sustainable Agro-Food Industrial Wastewater Treatment Using High Rate Anaerobic Process
%A Rajinikanth Rajagopal
%A Noori M. Cata Saady
%A Michel Torrijos
%A Joseph V. Thanikal
%A Yung-Tse Hung
%J Water
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/w5010292
%X This review article compiles the various advances made since 2008 in sustainable high-rate anaerobic technologies with emphasis on their performance enhancement when treating agro-food industrial wastewater. The review explores the generation and characteristics of different agro-food industrial wastewaters; the need for and the performance of high rate anaerobic reactors, such as an upflow anaerobic fixed bed reactor, an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor, hybrid systems etc.; operational challenges, mass transfer considerations, energy production estimation, toxicity, modeling, technology assessment and recommendations for successful operation
%K anaerobic digestion
%K agro-food wastewater
%K biogas
%K high-rate systems
%K sustainable wastewater treatment
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/5/1/292