Commonly aerobic "activated sludge" tanks are used to reduce organic contamination from industrial wastewaters. Typically quantified by COD, Chemical Oxygen Demand.
What's a typical maximum COD that these organisms can tolerate? Could they for example consume a 30,000 COD feed?
Nothing in the feed is acutely toxic to microorganisms.
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