Recycling of dairy food plant wastes to fish | |
| Author | Montemayor, Marilou B. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. AE-79-25 |
| Subject(s) | Water reuse Fish-culture |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Untreated dairy food plant wastes were added to the fish ponds at a loading rate of 50 kg/ha/day. There were four treatments in the experimental design: treatment A (waste+ 2 mg N/l + 0.5 mg P/l), treatment B (waste+ 1 mg N/l + 0.25 mg P/l),treatment C (waste+ 0.5 mg N/l + 0.125 mg P/l), and treatment D (waste only). The nutrient sources were commercial fertilizers -- ammonium sulfate and superphosphate. Water quality parameters were determined regularly throughout the experiment period. Fishes were weighed individually in each pond every two weeks. After 14 weeks the fishes were harvested and gave extrapolated yields of 8,303.7; 7,849.2; 7,133.7; and 4,745.0 kg/ha/yr for treatments A, B, C, and D, respectively. Economic analysis showed treatment C to be the most profitable. |
| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development |
| Department | Department of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (Former title: Department of Food Agriculture, and BioResources (DFAB)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Agricultural and Food Engineering (AE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Edwards, Peter |
| Examination Committee(s) | Chongrak Polprasert ;Jindal, Vinod Kumar |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Switzerland |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1979 |