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Coffee Processing

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide and is grown as a major crop. The document discusses coffee production in India, with the majority produced in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Coffee processing generates large amounts of solid and liquid waste that can pollute water sources if not properly treated. The waste contains high levels of organic matter and can deplete oxygen in water. Various methods are described for managing coffee waste, including using coffee pulp as organic fertilizer or mushroom growth substrate, and treating wastewater through anaerobic digestion, constructed wetlands, and water hyacinth ponds to reduce pollution.

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Coffee Processing

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide and is grown as a major crop. The document discusses coffee production in India, with the majority produced in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Coffee processing generates large amounts of solid and liquid waste that can pollute water sources if not properly treated. The waste contains high levels of organic matter and can deplete oxygen in water. Various methods are described for managing coffee waste, including using coffee pulp as organic fertilizer or mushroom growth substrate, and treating wastewater through anaerobic digestion, constructed wetlands, and water hyacinth ponds to reduce pollution.

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SELVA VILANI .

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COFFEE
• Coffee is a major plantation crop grown worldwide and is one of the
most popular beverages consumed throughout the world.
• There are three common species of coffee: robusta, arabica and
liberica.
• Coffee production in India is dominated in the hill tracts of South Indian
states, with the state of Karnataka accounting 53% followed by Kerala
28% and Tamil Nadu 11% of production of 8,200 tones.
• In Tamil Nadu, Nilgiris District, Yercaud and Kodaikanal are the areas in
which coffee is produced .
• The production rate of coffee in Karnataka is about 2,27,205 tones, with
78,705 tones of arabica and 1,48,500 tones of robusta.
COFFEE WASTE
hull-bean-pulp blended solid waste

wastewater rich in dissolved and suspended solids


Coffee pulp has to follow a preliminary
The polyphenols and caffeine are reported
treatment before it is used. Its disposal in
to have anti-physiological factors on animal
nature, without any treatment, causes
feed. Dark to black discoloration of rivers by
severe environmental pollution, due to
tannins .
putrefaction of organic matter.

PROBLEMS OF
COFFEE WASTE
The wastewater from such type of
industries has high concentration of organic
pollutants. Oxygen for biological breakdown It’s very harmful for surrounding water
exceeds oxygen in water leading to bodies, human health and aquatic life if
anaerobic conditions - bad smell through discharged directly into the surface waters.
“rotting” and good growth conditions for
health threatening bacteria is found .
MANAGEMENT OF COFFEE WASTE
The coffee pulp can be used as organic manure to the coffee farms. They can also be used as planting
soil for mushrooms.

The waste water can be recycled.

Anaerobic digestion has been applied to treat liquid and solid wastes from the coffee processing units.

Under appropriate operational conditions, anaerobic reactor will remove the organic and suspended
solids loads with an efficiency of 70-80%.

Activated carbon is considered very effective in reduction of color, absorbable organic halides and non-
biodegradable pollutants present in such waste water .
• Acidification tank: effluents from mechanical mucilage removers as well as
the waste water is allowed to rest at shallow depths for at least 6 hours.
During this time, raw mucilage comes out of solution and will float on top
ready to be raked off.
• Neutralisation tank: For further treatment the pH has to be raised to
atleast 6, thus they are treated with limestone (CaCO3) .
• Digester: During primary water treatment, neutralised waste water is used
as feedstock in an UASB biogas digester working on a special strain of
methanogenic bacteria from coffee plantation soils.
• During biogas operation, a reduction of 70 to 90% of BOD content can be
achieved in as little as 4-6 hours retention time delivering around 5 m3
methane per tonne cherry processed.
• Wetland: Secondary treatment is done in a constructed wetland planted
with rushes and reeds (Phragmitis australis) following the design of an
emergent macrophyte treatment system with subsurface flow.
• Water hyacinth pond: Tertiary treatment and final cleanup will be done by
water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) ponds. Water Hyacinth are particularly
active in the removal of both bacteria and heavy metals.

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