Table 3. Technology Needs/Business Opportunities in the Industrial
Wastewater Management
| Industrial Sector
|
Technology Required to be developed / modified |
|
Dyes & Intermediates
Textile, Pulp & Paper
Pharmaceuticals, Fertilizers
Pesticides, Fruit & Food products
Chemicals & Manmade fibers |
- Total dissolved solids Removal/Reduction
- Activated Carbon manufacture & regeneration
Biotechnology for degradation or detoxification of wastewater and sludge |
Pesticides, man made fiber,
Pharmaceuticals, electroplating
Coke oven, Toxic organic and
Inorganic salts manufactured
Distilleries, Metal processing
Fertilizers |
|
| Petrochemicals & Refineries |
- Oily waste treatment
- Hydrocarbon recovery and treatment
- Toxic waste treatment
Dissolved air floatation
|
Sugar, Distilleries, Paper
Manmade fiber |
- Colour reduction
- Activated carbon absorption and regeneration
- Biochemical and chemical oxygen demand
- Biotechnology for secondary wastewater treatment
- Membrane technology
- Incineration
Caustic recovery systems
|
Food processing, chemical industry
Nitrogenous & Phospatic
Fertilizers, Urea, Pesticides |
- Nitrification – Denitrification
- TOC load reduction
- Fluidized bed biological treatment
|
Industrial waste having
Dissolved Solids
Colour
Salinity |
- Reverse Osmosis & Ultrafiltration
- Regeneration of active carbon
- Ozonation
- Ion Exchange
- Evaporation and crystallization
- Dissolved air flotation
|
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