Industrial Effluent Treatment Process For Waste Water Treatment
The treatment process varies as per the type of effluent generated. Wastewater enters the treatment plant and goes through several processes before the effluent is released to the environment. Industrialeffluent treatment process includes the following stages: * Preliminary treatment is aimed at removing the large sized contaminants from waste water. It includes following activities: a. Screening: This is the first operation carried out in wastewater treatment plants . A screen is a device with uniform openings and its purpose is to remove large floating solids. b. Sedimentation: It is a physical method to have the solid contaminants get settled at bottom of any container using gravity so as to remove suspended solids from water. c. Grit Chamber: The wastewater that passes through the grit chamber removes the dense inorganic solids such as gravel, metal fragments and sand which have made their way into the sewers. Removal of gri...