Original Research Article
Year: 2016 | Month: January-March | Volume: 1 | Issue: 01 | Pages: 45-48
Characterization
and Treatment of Industrial Effluent by Trickling Filter
Sunil
J. Kulkarni, Sonali R. Dhokpande, Rutuja Joshi, Sonali Raut
Datta
Meghe College of Engineering, Airoli, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Corresponding Author: Sunil J. Kulkarni
ABSTRACT
Biological
wastewater treatment methods are classified as suspended growth and attached
growth. Activated sludge process and trickiling filters are examples of these
types of methods. Removal of organic matter is main objective behind these
treatment methods. In the present research wastewater from dye industries is
treated by using trickiling filter. The trickilng bed was prepared by growing
the microbial slim layer on the stone gravel filling. The dissolved oxygen,
chemical oxygen demand and pH of the treated and untreated effluent was
compared. In the present investigation about 75 percent of COD removal was
obtained with 6 fold increase in dissolved oxygen.
Key words: Attached growth process, biological oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, chemical oxygen demand.