Textile Wastewater Treatment using Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP)

Abstract

Wastewater from printing and dyeing industries is often colorful, contains reactive dye residues and chemicals, and requires proper treatment before being released into the environment. The treatment of textile wastes with biotechnology through the general use of high inorganic and organic concentrations is difficult for further process. Therefore, many industries make use of the advanced oxidation process (AOP) because of its ability to eliminate non-degradable organic components and avoid residual deposits removal. a new design of synthetic waste treatment was developed by installing the AOP on the existing wastewater treatment process (WWTP). However, the textile industry faces significant environmental problems because of its vast water consumption. This makes the resulting wastewater from their activities characterized by intense color, a large number of suspended solids, very unpredictable pH and high COD concentrations. Therefore, there is a need to implement some control measures in the future in order to minimize these waste problems. Experiments show that the pollutants can be physically removed by using the AOP process and COD decrease 51.7 % from 16.167 mg/L into 8.364 mg/L.