Sep 18, 2026

Food and Beverage Wastewater Treatment: Process Design Guide

How to design food and beverage wastewater treatment: screening, DAF, anaerobic digestion, and aerobic polishing for high-COD effluent.

Why Food and Beverage Effluent Is Challenging

Food and beverage plants produce wastewater with high COD, oils and grease, and suspended solids. Each product line creates a different effluent profile, but all share concentrated biodegradable organics.

Typical Treatment Train

Screening and dissolved air flotation remove solids and fats. Anaerobic IC reactors convert COD into biogas for high-strength streams, and aerobic polishing - activated sludge or MBR - reaches discharge or reuse quality.

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