SOURCE REDUCTION OF CHEMICALS IN TEXTILE PRINTING This is a wide-ranging subject that is now becoming of increasing importance. Allprintersare aware of thegreater pressure being placed on them by both national and local government legislation on the environment. This legislation is aimed at reducing emission from flues and controlling and monitoring the discharge of effluents. In the past the t...

Nanofiltration (NF) has become a widely accepted process not only for producing drinking water but also for recovering wastewater in industrial processes or removing pollutants from industrial wastewater effluent. In the textile industry, the treatment of various dye baths with NF at room temperature have already been studied and was found feasible at lab-scale and pilot scale. The aim of this ...

Textile industries are hailed as one of the major environmental polluters in world, owing to their release undesirable dye effluents. Synthetic dyes do not adhere fabric firmly and released into aquatic ecosystem effluent. Consequently, consistent wastewater from numerous textile without previous treatment has detrimental effects on human health. Treatment methods currently being used fail degr...

Textile and apparel industry plays a huge role in the Sri Lankan industrial sector, accounting more than 40% of export earnings country. wet processing produces large volumes coloured effluents which have potential to cause negative impacts on environment various adverse health effects if not properly treated.

Considering both the volume and the effluent composition, the textile industry wastewater is rated as the most polluting among all industrial sectors. Important pollutants are present in textile effluents; they are mainly recalcitrant organics, colour, toxicants and inhibitory compounds (Khelifi et al., 2008). Textile industries however, have caused serious environmental problems because of the...