INDUSTRIAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT

A. D. PATWARDHAN

May 2008 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

About this ebook

All industrial production processes generate waste waters, which can pollute water bodies into which they are discharged without adequate treatment. It is, therefore, essential to treat such wastes and eliminate their harmful effects on the environment. This book discusses sources, characteristics and treatment of waste waters produced in industries such as textiles, dairy, tanneries, pulp and paper, fertilizer, pesticide, organic and inorganic chemicals, engineering and fermentation. Many flow diagrams have been included to illustrate industrial processes and to indicate the sources of waste water in such processes. After describing treatment for individual factories, the author discusses the more advanced and economical common effluent plants. The text uses simple and straightforward language and makes the presentation attractive. This book should prove extremely useful to undergraduate students of civil and chemical engineering and postgraduate students of environmental science and engineering. Industrial design consultants will also find the book very handy. To the Greens, it may offer some of the solutions to their concerns.

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About the author

A.D. PATWARDHAN (Ph.D.) is a process design consultant to a major industrial firm that undertakes various projects relating to treatment of domestic sewage and industrial wastes. He has taught the course on industrial waste water treatment to undergraduate and postgraduate students for 18 years as Professor in VJTI, Mumbai, and has designed waste water treatment plants while working with M/s. Associated Industrial Consultants (Now M/s. Montgomery Watson Harza) for 13 years. He was in-charge of water, sewage and industrial waste water treatment plants of M/s. Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd. A Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and the Institution of Public Health Engineers, he is Life Member of the Indian Water Works Association, Indian Environmental Association, and Indian Society for Technical Education. He is also a member of Water Environment Federation, USA.