This invention relates to a method for treating soybean refinery
wastewater. More particularly, this invention relates to a method for
treating soybean refinery wastewater with an aqueous iron salt solution
to produce purified water. An aqueous iron salt solution is admixed with
soybean refinery wastewater, the resulting mixture is agitated and passed
through at least one filter device to form a filtered effluent, and the
pH of the filtered effluent is adjusted to a value below about 8 to form
purified water.