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Membrane Water Treatment Volume 6, Number 2, March 2015 , pages 103-112 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/mwt.2015.6.2.103 |
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Effluents from copper industry: Improvised techniques |
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Sankar Duraisamy, Rajagopal Saminathan and Deepa Narsimman
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| Abstract | ||
| In India, recycling of treated effluent plays a major role in the industry. Particularly in copper industry, recycling techniques for treated effluents adopt conventional technologies which are not energy efficient and recovery of high quality process water, free flowing salts and sludge's is very low. This paper presents an overview of enhanced modern technology for treated effluents in copper industry making it more efficient with high recovery of high quality process water and free flowing salts. Life cycle cost (LCC) would be 15-20% lower than the conventional technologies. The conventional technology can be replaced with this proposed technique in the existing and upcoming copper industries. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| copper industry; life cycle; recycling; waste water; improvised techniques | ||
| Address | ||
| (1) Sankar Duraisamy, Rajagopal Saminathan: Development consultants private limited, consulting engineers, Chennai-600006, TN, India; (2) Deepa Narsimman: Queen Mary's College (Autonomous), Chennai 600004, Tamil Nadu, India. | ||
