Membrane Separation-Based Recovery and Reuse of Textile Wastewater

Abstract

Pritesh S. Patil, Ankita Yadav, Nitin V. Thombre, Yagna Prasad K. and Anand V. Patwardhan

The textile industry is one of the oldest sectors and consumed different dyes and harmful chemicals for the process. It involves various processes and requires a huge amount of water to carry out these processes, therefore, it is causing a large amount of water pollution. In the present study, we have successfully treated the textile effluent using membrane separation. The effluent was collected from a local effluent treatment plant (ETP) and treated on commercial membranes i.e. polymeric and ceramic, and novel synthesized composite ceramic membrane. Detailed analyses of each membrane were carried out. The effluent procured from the ETP and treated effluent was characterized in terms of pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), cconductivity andtturbidity. A reduction in all the measured parameters of water was observed. COD was reduced around 40% after the treatment of effluent. Overall, our novel synthesized composite ceramic membrane shows better results and is comparable to the commercially available membranes.

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