Advanced Oxidative Pretreatment Process for Enhance Biodegradation of Complex Wastewater Generated from Pharmaceutical Industry

Abstract

Pharmaceutical waste is one of the major complex and toxic industrial wastes. Pharmaceutical industry produces a wide variety of products. This industry uses both inorganic and organic as raw materials the latter being either of synthetic or of vegetable and animal origin. Antibiotics and vitamins are produced by fermentation of fairly complex nutrient solutions of organic matter and inorganic salts by fungi or bacteria. If a crude waste from an antibiotic plant is discharged into a stream it not only imparts objectionable odor to the stream but also adversely affects the flora and fauna. The volume and composition of the liquid waste not only vary from plant to plant but also from section to section in a plant, producing different type of drugs from raw materials and using varieties of processes.