Chapter 4
Treatment Technologies of Fresh Market
Wastewater
N. M. Jais, M. S. Miswan, Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed,
and Adel Ali Saeed Al-Gheethi
Abstract Fresh Market Wastewater (FMWW) is rich with high amounts of suspended solids, organic and inorganic compounds, nutrients, gases and some elements
which come from fish entrails and seafood preparation sales, meat cutting, poultry
slaughtering, fruits and vegetables sales. The excess of these parameters are harmful
to the aquatic life since the FMWW is usually discharged into the drainage systems
without any treatment or partial treatment. The FMWW technologies are developed
due to some technical factors influencing the designation and construction. There
are several projects of fresh market treatment technologies used on site area in small
scale which could be replicated to other fresh market, and some case study have
been tested in laboratory batch experiments. All the projects exhibited an efficiency
to reduce critical parameters in FMWW and give positive impacts to the locals and
responsible parties.
Keywords Fresh market · Wastewater · Treatment technologies
4.1 Introduction
The origin of fresh market is rooted in periodic marketing (typically for a few hours
in the morning once every three to five days). Fresh market is the public market for
locals to get their fresh foodstuffs such as vegetables, fruits, fish, seafood, chicken
and meat. Fresh market has regular customers and is well known as a supplier of
good quality raw food. The sellers did not use frozen method for their foodstuff. The
customers can bargain with the sellers and compare with the supermarket which has
fixed price and usually, the price at fresh market is still affordable (Sze-ki 2008).
N. M. Jais · M. S. Miswan · R. M. S. Radin Mohamed (B) · A. A. S. Al-Gheethi (B)
Department of Water and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Micro-pollution Research Centre (MPRC), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
(UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
e-mail: maya@uthm.edu.my
A. A. S. Al-Gheethi
e-mail: adel@uthm.edu.my
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
A. A. S. Al-Gheethi et al. (eds.), Prospects of Fresh Market Wastes Management
in Developing Countries, Water Science and Technology Library 92,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42641-5_4
59
Treatment Technologies of Fresh Market
Wastewater
N. M. Jais, M. S. Miswan, Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed,
and Adel Ali Saeed Al-Gheethi
Abstract Fresh Market Wastewater (FMWW) is rich with high amounts of suspended solids, organic and inorganic compounds, nutrients, gases and some elements
which come from fish entrails and seafood preparation sales, meat cutting, poultry
slaughtering, fruits and vegetables sales. The excess of these parameters are harmful
to the aquatic life since the FMWW is usually discharged into the drainage systems
without any treatment or partial treatment. The FMWW technologies are developed
due to some technical factors influencing the designation and construction. There
are several projects of fresh market treatment technologies used on site area in small
scale which could be replicated to other fresh market, and some case study have
been tested in laboratory batch experiments. All the projects exhibited an efficiency
to reduce critical parameters in FMWW and give positive impacts to the locals and
responsible parties.
Keywords Fresh market · Wastewater · Treatment technologies
4.1 Introduction
The origin of fresh market is rooted in periodic marketing (typically for a few hours
in the morning once every three to five days). Fresh market is the public market for
locals to get their fresh foodstuffs such as vegetables, fruits, fish, seafood, chicken
and meat. Fresh market has regular customers and is well known as a supplier of
good quality raw food. The sellers did not use frozen method for their foodstuff. The
customers can bargain with the sellers and compare with the supermarket which has
fixed price and usually, the price at fresh market is still affordable (Sze-ki 2008).
N. M. Jais · M. S. Miswan · R. M. S. Radin Mohamed (B) · A. A. S. Al-Gheethi (B)
Department of Water and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Micro-pollution Research Centre (MPRC), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
(UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
e-mail: maya@uthm.edu.my
A. A. S. Al-Gheethi
e-mail: adel@uthm.edu.my
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
A. A. S. Al-Gheethi et al. (eds.), Prospects of Fresh Market Wastes Management
in Developing Countries, Water Science and Technology Library 92,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42641-5_4
59