Technical papers

Total Water Management

With the growing scarcity of water, the emphasis is on conservation of this resource and recycles to a maximum extent. Sugar Factories and its allied industry i.e. distillery, consume large quantity of water, both for process and for cooling (make-up). Efforts were initiated long back to identify partially polluted or unpolluted sources of water, which can be recycled with partial / no treatment, to achieve minimum water consumption. The efforts in this direction have resulted in the sugar factory working without intake of even a single drop of water.
The concept of Total Water Management is being actively implemented in many industries, particularly Sugar Factory complexes, under our guidance and the work activity in this regard includes :
  • Working out water sources, utilization pattern and budget for individual sub unit, as well as for the Total Industrial Complex.
  • Optimization of water usage by process control options.
  • Characteristics Analysis of effluent streams and segregating the same on principles of level of pollutants and treatability.
  • Working out separate techno economical treatment modes for partially contaminated, medium polluted and highly polluted streams. In case of existing treatments, critical analysis of the technology, units of treatment and efficiency achieved, so as to arrive at proper kinetics of reactions and maximum efficiency with optimum resource utilization.
  • Effecting partial / full recycle of treated streams for the applications, best suitable. This will achieve minimum utilization, and therefore dependence on external water intake.

The above definitely steers the industry towards not only self sufficiency, but also, shall reduce/eliminate the problems of safe disposal, both of these aspects being most critical day by day. Our experience in advising various industrial effluent treatment projects will be helpful in optimizing the treatment efficiencies and costs as well.