STUDY OF OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

Abstract

A wastewater treatment plant is a facility in which a combination of various processes (e.g., physical, chemical, and biological) are used to treat industrial wastewater and remove pollutants. Textile wastewater usually consists of chlorides, sulphates, dyes, bleaching agents, suspended solids, and organic & inorganic impurities. We aspire to come up with a highly feasible solution to the major problem that majority of the industries are encountering i.e., treatment of the wastewater which the industry is producing. Conventionally, this process consists of a series of membranes and chemical treatments and is an energy intensive process. Hence, to cope up with this, we have planned on introducing a more efficient method that uses the uprising technology of Hydrodynamic Cavitation (HC) that minimizes the steps involved in the treatment process, thus lowering the energy consumption, and providing a much better output. The industry assigned to us is Kohinoor Textile Mills Ltd and we’ll be utilizing a Hydrodynamic Cavitator to breakdown impurities and suspended solids within the wastewater on the principle of creating high and low-pressure zones caused by variation in the orifice diameter of the piping instrumentation. We aim to achieve a certain amount of purity of the treated water which can either be utilized for domestic purposes or for use in agricultural fields.