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There is no significant difference in the design of the MBR technology for a process treating industrial rather than municipal wastewater. The key differences between the two applications are that, for industrial effluents, there are:

• higher concentrations of organic matter
• more temporal variation in the concentrations of pollutants
• very significant variations across different industrial sectors
• no requirement for the removal of pathogenic micro-organisms, unless the effluent is combined with a sewage stream.

Read more about the industrial and municipal applications of MBRs:

• Industrial MBRs − an introduction
• Installing an MBR for industrial wastewater treatment
• Industrial MBRs − petroleum sector
• Industrial MBRs − ship effluents
• Industrial MBRs − food and beverage sector
• Industrial MBRs − landfill leachate sector
• Industrial MBRs − pharmaceutical sector
• Industrial MBRs − pulp and paper sector
• Industrial MBRs − textiles sector

• MBRs for municipal wastewater treatment
• Interactive map: history of municipal MBR installations
• Feature − Survey of Japanese municipal MBRs

• Largest membrane bioreactor plants – Worldwide
• Largest membrane bioreactor plants – Africa
• Largest membrane bioreactor plants – Americas
• Largest membrane bioreactor plants – Asia
• Largest membrane bioreactor plants – Europe
• Largest membrane bioreactor plants – Middle East
• Largest membrane bioreactor plants − Oceania