Industrial wastewater treatment, from basic concepts to case studies

Profesor: Chandra Sekhar (Visiting Professor stay funded by the ERASMUS + programme) The contents to be developed throughout the sessions of the course are: Session 1: 2.5 h 1. General Characteristics of Industrial Effluents, Effects on receiving water body and Tolerance limits. Effluent Standards. Disposal Options. Industrial Water Requirements. Sources of wastewater. Toxics from industry 2. Pre-treatment of Industrial Wastewater. Necessity and application. Strength Reduction. Volume Reduction. Equalization and Proportioning. Neutralization. Segregation. Process Changes. Salvaging. By product Recovery. Session 2: 2.5 h 3. Treatment methods. Conventional treatment, Other advanced treatment methods- RO, Filtration, Ion Exchange, Electro dialysis 4. Tertiary treatment. Removal of Refractory Organics. Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus. Wastewater Disinfection. Zero Waste approach. ZLD. Wastewater reclamation recycle and reuse Session 3: 3 h 5. Case study on Textile, Leather, Sugar and Dairy Industries. Raw materials. Water Requirements. Sources of Waste water. Salient Characteristics of Wastewater. Suitable pre-treatment. Wastewater treatment options. At the end of the course the student will be able to: 1. Sample and Analyze the characteristics of industrial Wastewaters, 2. Analyze the effects of disposal of industrial wastes, 3. Identify and design treatment options for handling industrial wastewater.