discharged into water bodies without any treatment. In this study, a laboratory-scale system
combining an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR), with the total volume of 10 L and a down-flow
hanging sponge reactor (DHS), with the total volume of 4.14 L was designed to treat
synthetic dyeing wastewater containing the commercial azo dye Hellozol HSR Reactive
Black at 30° C with a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 23.2 h. Synthetic wastewater with …