The majority of British textile finishing firms discharge their waste water to sewers for treatment by local authorities, and their problems are mainly those of pretreatment torender the wastes acceptable, by removal of alkali or acid, and other materials that are prohibited. Firms discharging to watercourses have to purify the waste water to a high standard before discharge and this usually in...

Industrial wastes may produce leachates that can contaminate the aquatic ecosystem. Toxicity testing in acute and chronic levels is essential to assess environmental risks from the soluble fractions of these wastes, since only chemical analysis may not be adequate to classify the hazard of an industrial waste. In this study, ten samples of solid wastes from textile, metal-mechanic, and pulp and...

Egypt is well-known in the world not only for its old heritage but also for its valued presence in superior quality of textiles. However, the textile industry is both energy intensive and highly polluting. The production of textiles often requires high levels of water consumption and emits large quantities of pollutants to the environment. Therefore, it is very important to minimize its impact ...

The textile industry is one of the industries that generate a high volume of waste water. Approximately 10, 000 different dyes and pigments are manufactured worldwide with a total annual market of more than 7×10 metric tones per year (Ahluwalia and Goyal, 2007). In India textile is one of the oldest establishments with nearly 1569 large cotton textiles industries, which gives employment to near...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential applicability of biological trickling filter system for the treatment of simulated textile wastewater containing reactive azo dyes with bacterial consortium under non-sterile conditions. The percentage decolorization for the treatment of wastewater containing structurally different dyes was found to be higher than 95% in all trials. The ...

Manganese/TiO2 composites are prepared by a solvothermal process starting from the precursors titanium propoxide and manganese nitrate. The solvothermal processes are driven at temperatures of 140 °C or 180 °C. The formation of anatase as crystalline TiO2-phase was determined by XRD for preparation conditions at 180 °C. The occurance of crystalline phases in nanometer scale is determined furthe...

Microorganisms dead or alive are successfully exploited for bioremediation of xenobiotics by biosorption. Textile effluents are among the most difficult-to-treat wastewaters, due to their considerable amount of recalcitrant and toxic substances. Fungal biosorption is viewed as a valuable additional treatment for removing pollutants from textile wastewaters. The overall economics of the biosorpt...

Several synthetic dyes employed in textile and food industries are discharged into aquatic environment. These visible pollutants in water damage environment, as they are carcinogenic and toxic to humans. The use of cost effective and ecofriendly plant cellulose based adsorbents have been studied in batch experiments as an alternative and effective substitution of activated carbon for the remova...

The industrial waste water containing the various dyes is responsible for water pollution, due to their carcinogenic behaviour. Lots of investigations reported that 10-12% of dyes are used every year in textile industries such as Rose Bengal, Victoria blue, Thymol blue, Caramine, Indigo Red, Red 120, Rhodamine B, Methylene Blue, Eriochrome Black-T (EBT) [1-4] of which are major portion (20%) lo...