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Pilot-scale Spray Drying of Distillery Spent Wash and its Physico-chemical

Characteristics (Case study- Rorank Business S.C)

Technical Report · February 2016

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3772.3285

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Pilot-scale Spray Drying of Distillery Spent
Wash and its Physico-chemical
Characterization
Taye Zewdu

School of Chemical and Bio Engineering

Addis Ababa Institute of Technology
Addis Ababa University

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 Contents
1 Background 3

2 Introduction 4

3 Distillery Process and Spent Wash 5

3.1 Physico-chemical Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2 Pilot-scale Spray Drying of Spent Wash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3 Proximate Analysis of Distillery Spent Wash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4 Effluent Standards and Treatment Alternatives 11

5 Conclusion and Recommendations 12

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