An appraisal of a waste water treament plant for pulp and paper mill

Abstract

Due to  stringent requirement so fregional regulatory agencies as also about environmental protection, there is a growing concern that is being shown in implementing wastewater management schemes. However, the approach towards solving wastewater management problem is still not that  serious  as  a  result,  wastewater treatment plants are inadequately designed and constructed.  Moreover,  after  commissioning of treatment  plant, there are problems of poor operation and maintenance. All these finally adversely affect the treated wastewater quality, thus, defeating the  basic  objective  of environmental protection. A filed study  conducted on  one  of  the pulp and paper manufacturing industry has been presented in the paper alongwith shortcomings and possible remedial measures  for  achieving  improvements.