ABSTRACT
This chapter explains preliminary studies at the scallop processing facility of Homer Smith Seafood Company (HSSC) in Green Cove Springs, Florida, toward developing a feasible permanent wastewater treatment plant for HSSC which has only a microstraining unit and a small holding tank for grit removal. A system consisting of a microstrainer, a dissolved air flotation clarifier and a granular activated carbon adsorption (GAC) column was proven to be feasible for treatment of the 200-gpm Homer Smith scallop processing wastewater containing 3184 mg/L Chemical Oxygen Demand, 1905 mg/L total suspended solid, 122 ppb cadmium, 387 ppb zinc and 27.7 mg/L ammonia nitrogen. Both raw wastewater and the pilot plant treated effluent was preserved by dry ice and shipped by air freight to the Lenox Institute for Research in Lenox, Massachusetts for additional analysis and laboratory testing, such as GAC and free chlorination.
