Abstract:
The activity of coffee production, specifically that which is carried out by small producers,
generates liquid waste, called honey water, which without treatment contaminates soils and
waters, before which, it was proposed to develop a technological protocol for the treatment of
honey water from the wet process of coffee through the use of organic polymers and from this,
use the treated water for the irrigation of coffee plantations and the solid residue that comes out
to elaborate food of fish. It was found that the treatment with organic polymers achieved a
reduction of 80% of the levels and/or the absence of the indicator in 11 of 15 physicochemical
and microbiological indicators analyzed. Likewise, the implementation of a drip irrigation
module with the treated water, using 2 LPH drippers was validated, and the solid residues or
sludge obtained from the honey water treatment performed well as a by-product for the
production of fish feed. |
