An overview of sustainability of common effluent treatment plant for clusters of tanneries |
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Authors: | Girish R. Pophali Rita S. Dhodapkar |
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Affiliation: | (1) National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR), Nehru Marg, Nagpur, 440 020, India |
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Abstract: | This paper presents an overview of sustainability of implementation of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Southern India. Implementation of a CETP for the treatment of combined wastewater from small-scale tannery has proved to be a techno-economic option and offered environmentally and economically sustainable method of treatment. Various aspects such as adequacy assessment and upgradation of CETP based on the treatability studies, energy audit, cost-benefit analysis, effect of implementation of CETP on surrounding groundwater and organizational management set-up were studied over a period of 4 years to analyse the sustainability of the CETP. The concept of CETP makes effective use of human, technical, and financial and natural resources and financially sustainable, i.e. being a collective responsibility, it does not fail due to financial constraints. The implementation of CETP is a true example of a step towards sustainable development and suggests that this concept can be effectively used for treatment of various industrial wastewaters emanating from small-scale clusters. |
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