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INDUSTRIAL WASTE AND

WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT
(ELECTIVE-I)

Course Code: 13CE1131 L T P C

4 0 0 3
Course Educational Objectives:
✤ To familiarize student with the knowledge of theory and design of
Industrial waste water treatment.
✤ To produce civil engineering graduates who have strong fundamental
knowledge about the treatment of effluents from food and chemical
industries.
Course Outcomes:
✤ Student will be able to identify and analyse the waste from various
sources.
✤ Student will be able to understand about Industrial processes –Origin
of waste water – various treatment methods, code of practices –
management.
UNIT-I (12) Lectures)
INTRODUCTION:
General Characteristics of Industrial effluents, effects on Environment –
ISI tolerance limits for discharging industrial effluents into surface water,
into public sewers and on to land for irrigation.
UNIT-II (14 Lectures)
TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE WATER :
Necessity of treatment –Segregation – Process changes – Salvaging –
By Product Recovery –Ion Exchange, Electro dialysis, Solvent Extraction,
Floatation – Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus – Boiler water treatment
methods and cooling water treatment methods.

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UNIT-III (10 Lectures)

FOOD INDUSTRIES:
Sources, characteristics and treatment of Sugar, Dairy, Distilleries.
UNIT-IV (12 Lectures)
MAJOR INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS:
Sources, characteristics and treatment of power plants, oil refineries,
cement and steel.
UNIT-V (12 Lectures))
CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES:
sources and characteristics and treatment of Paper and pulp, tanneries,
textiles, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals
TEXT BOOK:
Rao, M.N. & Dutta, A.K. “Waste Water Treatment”, 3rd Edition, IBH
Publishers, 1982.
REFERENCES:
1. Numersorn. N.L., “Liquid Waste from industry – theories,
Practice and Treatment”.
2. Benefield L.D. and Randall C.D, “Biological Process Designs
for Wastewater Advanced Waste Treatment Methods
“Removal suspended soils – Dissolved solid Treatment”,
Prentice Hall Pub. Co., 1980.
3. Metcalf and Eddy. “Waste water Engineering – Collection,
Treatment, Disposal and Reuse”, Mc Graw Hill Pub. Co.,
1995.
4. Bhide, A.D. & Sunderesan, B.B. “Solid Waste Management”,
INSDOC, NEERI, Nagpur 1994.

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