Industrial Waste Management

(CE 4131)
Full Marks:100 Credit: 3

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
Howrah – 711103, India.
 Course Outcome
● Understand the sources and composition of different
industrial wastes
● Apply the waste source reduction methods
● Know about the different methods for waste treatment
and management
● Acquire knowledge about the waste composition and
treatment methods for specific industries.
 Syllabus and Lesion plan
Sl. No. Description of Course Modules and Lecture Plan Hours
1. Effluents from industries – sampling, characterization, Effect 4
of discharge of industrial wastewaters on streams, land and
environment, Indian Standards for discharge of wastewaters
2. Approach towards minimization - good housekeeping, 4
equalization and neutralization by mixing of different
effluent streams, recycling of wastewater streams, process
modification in terms of raw materials and chemicals used
3. Treatment of industrial wastes, equalization and 7
proportioning, neutralization, removal of dissolved and
suspended solids, organic waste treatment process, sludge
treatment and handling
Sl. No. Description of Course Modules and Lecture Plan Hours
4. Treating different effluent streams separately, Treating 4
different streams jointly after mixing them partly or fully
including/ excluding domestic wastewater
5. Approaches for treating wastes having shock loads, colours, 7
toxic metal ions, refractory substances, growth inhibition
substances such as insecticides, oil and grease, acidic and
alkaline waste, alkalinity, etc.
6. Process flow Diagrams for treatment of various Industrial 7
Wastes
Sl. No. Description of Course Modules and Lecture Plan Hours
7 Hazardous waste management - Hazardous waste 3
definition characteristics and classification, generation,
Superfund sites, toxicity, dose-response relation,
ecotoxicology, Hazardous waste management rules-CPCB
guidelines
8 Biomedical waste management - generation, sources, 3
handling, transport treatment, equipment, infrastructure,
inventories, segregation, packaging and disposal-CPCB
guidelines.
Suggested Readings
1. Eckenfelder Jr., W. W., “Industrial water pollution Control”, McGraw-Hill
2. LaGrega, M. D., Buckingham, P. L., Evans, J. C., “Hazardous waste management”,
Environmental Resource Management, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill
3. Birdie, G. S., and Birdie, J. S., “Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering”,
Dhanpat Rai Publishing Co.
 Wastewater Composition
Wastewater
Domestic Industrial
• Solids • Organic matter
• Readily biodegradable organics in • Suspended solids
major quantity (BOD) • Acids and alkalis
• COD • Inorganic salts
• Chlorides • Floating solids
• Alkalinity • Heated water
• Grease • Colour
• Toxic substances
• Microorganisms
• Radioactive wastes
• Foam producing substances
 Wastewater treatment ... Overview
Screen

Primary
Equalization Grit Channel Clarifier
Raw
Wastewater
Comminutor
(Grinding)

Underflow to Sludge
Treatment

Effluent to Further Treatment or Secondary Biological

to Stream Clarifier Reactor

Settled Sludge Sludge Recycle

To Sludge
Treatment
 Flow Chart for Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Acid/Alkali
Sedimentation

Raw Chemicals
Equalization Neutralization Treatment Flotation
Wastewater

Filtration

GAC Ozonation
Adsorption Filtration
POWT

Discharge to PAC Biological

Stream Adsorption Treatment

Nitrification
Denitrification
Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management
and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016
“Hazardous waste” means any waste which by reason of characteristics such as
physical, chemical, biological, reactive, toxic, flammable, explosive or corrosive,
causes danger or is likely to cause danger to health or environment, whether
alone or in contact with other wastes or substances, and shall include

(i) waste specified under column (3) of Schedule I;

(ii) waste having equal to or more than the concentration limits specified for
the constituents in class A and class B of Schedule II or any of the
characteristics as specified in class C of Schedule II; and
(iii) wastes specified in Part A of Schedule III in respect of import or export of
such wastes or the wastes not specified in Part A but exhibit hazardous
characteristics specified in Part C of Schedule III.
 HW Treatment methods
Physical and chemical treatment Thermal treatment Biological treatment

• Filtration and separation • Incineration • Land treatment

• Chemical precipitation • Pyrolysis • Enzymatic systems
• Chemical oxidation and reduction • Autoclaving • Composting
(redox) • Aerobic and anaerobic treatment
• Solidification and stabilisation
• Evaporation
• Ozonation
 Major classes of BMW
Includes human/animal Chemicals (medical and
tissue, blood-soaked industrial), old drugs,
bandages, surgical gloves, and sharps (needles,
• Infectious cultures, stocks, or swabs scalpels, lancets, etc.)
• Hazardous
• Radioactive
Produced from nuclear Paper, plastics, liquids,
• and general medicine treatments, and anything else that
cancer therapies and doesn't fit into the
medical equipment that previous three categories
uses radioactive isotopes
BMW – Management – Functional elements

Segregation Collection

Onsite storage Transportation

Processing/Treatment Final disposal