Nutrient Removal in Wastewaters by Using EM

Authors

  • Arunwon Wungkobkiat Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
  • Aree Chaiyapinant Agricultural Chemistry Division, Department of Agriculture, Ngamwongwan road, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
  • Saovanee Soontornpitak Agricultural Chemistry Division, Department of Agriculture, Ngamwongwan road, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.

Keywords:

domestic wastewater treatment, Effective Microorganisms

Abstract

Biological Wastewater treatment efficiency of EM ( a mixed culture produced by Sei Kai Kuesei Kyo foundation) was compared with the mixed cultures taken from an oxidation pond treating domestic wastewater for removal nutrients in a domestic wastewater, an artificial sewage, and an artificial starch wastewater. An experiment was conducted in a batch system. It was found that the microorganisms from EM could grow and removed COD, nitrogen compounds, and phosphate in all kinds of the wastewaters. However, its ability was not better than the mixed cultures from the oxidation pond.

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Published

1996-12-31

How to Cite

Arunwon Wungkobkiat, Aree Chaiyapinant, and Saovanee Soontornpitak. 1996. “Nutrient Removal in Wastewaters by Using EM”. Agriculture and Natural Resources 30 (5). Bangkok, Thailand:211-18. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/anres/article/view/241269.

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 5 (1996): January-December

Section

Research Article

License

online 2452-316X print 2468-1458/Copyright © 2022. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/),
production and hosting by Kasetsart University of Research and Development Institute on behalf of Kasetsart University.