Clean technologies for textile processing

摘要

Textile manufacturing is one of the largest industrial user of process water and huge quantities of complex chemicals that are used at different processing stages in textile processing. The unused materials from these processing operations are discharged as wastewater that are high in BOD, COD, pH, and temperature, color, odors, turbidity and toxic chemicals. The direct discharge of this wastewater on water bodies like streams and rivers etc. pollute the water and affect the flora and fauna. In India, the capacity and the technology of wastewater treatment plants are abysmally poor compared to vast effluents that contribute to contamination of water. la this context, cost-saving waste management program and development of clean technologies are the possible solutions that need to be focused on.