Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Methods for Textile Industry
2018 (English)In: Sustainable Innovations in Apparel Production / [ed] Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Singapore: Springer Publishing Company, 2018Chapter in book (Refereed)
Sustainable development
According to the author(s), the content of this publication falls within the area of sustainable development.
Abstract [en]
All over the world, environmental considerations are now becoming vital factors during the selection of consumer goods which include textiles. According to the World Bank, 20% of water pollution globally is caused by textile processing, which means that these industries produce vast amounts of wastewater. Generally, these effluents contain high levels of suspended solids (SS), phosphates, dyes, salts, organo-pesticides, non-biodegradable organics, and heavy metals. Increase in water scarcity and environmental regulations has led to textile industries to seek for sustainable wastewater treatment methods which help to reduce their water footprint as well as reduce their operational costs. Therefore, sustainable wastewater treatment could be the best choice for the textile industries with respect to the current issues. So, it is important to discuss and champion awareness mechanisms which help to reduce the current issues with respect to the textile wastewater. Therefore, this chapter intends to discuss the various sustainable wastewater treatments, namely granular activated carbon (GAC), electrocoagulation (EC), ultrasonic treatment, an advanced oxidation process (AOP), ozonation, membrane biological reactor (MBR), and sequencing batch reactor (SBR).
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Singapore: Springer Publishing Company, 2018.
Keywords [en]
wastewater, effluent, textile industry, electrocoagulation, water pollution, membrane bioreactor, ultrafiltration, activated carbon, sustainability
National Category
Textile, Rubber and Polymeric Materials Other Environmental Engineering
Research subject
Resource Recovery; Textiles and Fashion (General)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-15225DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8591-8ISBN: 978-981-10-8590-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-15225DiVA, id: diva2:1257680
2018-10-222018-10-222018-11-16Bibliographically approved