The future projection of Turkish fertilizer industry and its wastewater problem

Abstract

With the advance in the agricultural sector, thefertilizer sector is growing as well. But the increasing demandfor fertilizers and the development of the fertilizer sector inTurkey brings up the wastewater problem of the fertilizerindustry. AS a considerable amount of the production consistsof nitrogen based fertilizers, the wastewaters contain highlevels of ammonium-N and nitrate-No The properties of thewastewater produced by the fertilizer industry and thetreatment methods have been investigated and it has been foundthat biological treatment is the suitable treatment method forTurkey