Industrial wastewater treatment using electrochemical process

Abstract

Wastewater treatment has become an essential part of industrial operations. A proper treatment is required to discharge this wastewater in to water bodies. Pesticide production is one of the major supporting factors to the agriculture field, since India is an agricultural based economy. The pesticide industry wastewater (PIW) contains chlorinated toxic pollutants. Treatment of such type of wastewater using conventional treatment methods might have their limitations due to the presence of toxic compounds, time consumption and complexity of the treatment process. In the past few years, the electrochemical method (Electrocoagulation (EC)/Electro oxidation (EO)) has been proposed as an effective method to treat many types of industrial effluents. In the present study, the treatment of pesticide processing industrial waste water has been carried out using electrochemical method and with combination of other advanced methods.