JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objective

To impart knowledge on composition treatment and effective disposal of industrial

effluents

Course Outcomes:

• Knowledge on theories and systems of industrial effluent treatment and disposal.
• An outlook on industrial effluent management with reference to specific industries.

UNIT - I

Pollutants from industrial effluents – sources, effects on streams, sewers, land – organic load on rivers. Basic theories of Industrial waste water management. Inplant survey– composite sampling – Tolerance limits for eflluents discharges into inland surface water’s public sewers, and onland for irrigation – standards.

UNIT - II

Volume and strength reduction, neutralization, equalization and proportioning, recovery and recyle of waste products and bye products – joint treatment of Industrial wastes and domestic sewage – discharge into water bodies, consequent problems.

UNIT - III

Characteristics and composition of wastes from specific manufacturing units like, paper and pulp, textile, tannery, sugar industries.

UNIT - IV

Treatment of Industrial waste from distilleries, dairy, fertilizer plant, steel plant.

UNIT - V

Oil refiners, pharmaceutical plants, Thermal Power Plants, and radioactive wastes.Treatment units for the above industrial effluents.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Wastewater Treatment by M. N. Rao and A. K. Datta–Oxford I. B. H publishers
• 2. Handbook of Industrial Waste Disposal by Richard A. Conway Richard Ross– Van Nostrand publisher (1980)
• 3. Industrial Waste Treatment: Contemporary Practice and Vision for the Future by Nelson Leonard Nemerow, Nemerow – Butterworth Weinemann publisher (2006) M. Tech – I Year – II Sem. (Envir. Engg.)