Characterization of Sullage Collected from Residential Building

Abstract

The present study is about the analysis of sullage collected from Tiruvanchery region, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Sullage is the waste water from households, sinks, bathrooms, kitchen households but except the waste water from toilets. In this project, 6 samples of waste water were collected in 3 different apartments. The apartments are Ruby Grand, Ruby Regency and Green Paradise. The 2 samples of the waste water are the kitchen waste water and washing clothes waste water. Physical, chemical and biological parameters are tested in environmental laboratory. The chemical parameters were tested using titrimetric method. It is found that all samples were safe against pH, Alkalinity, Flouride, Chloride, Iron, Phosphate, and Turbidity which are within the permissible limits of IS3306 (1974)