Sewage Treatment Using Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor in India

This paper describes a review on development of anaerobic process and technology, involved for the treatment of domestic wastewater. In recent year there has been a growing interest for anaerobic processes over the conventional waste treatment techniques. The potential of producing usable energy makes the anaerobic biological processes unique. This feature has led to considerable fundamental research on anaerobic treatment systems specially Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor over past three decades. The available literatures on the treatment of sewage and the applications of UASB reactor in India are reviewed in this paper.