DAIRY WASTEWATER-A CASE STUDY

Swati A.Patil, Vaishali V. Ahire, M.H.Hussain

Abstract: Environmental Engineering & Pollution control are the growing concerns of today. Rising population technological, economical and industrial revolution and changing life style has lead to various types of environmental problems, water pollution, land pollution, Air pollution, nuclear pollution, sound pollution including spiritual pollution are the aspects of pollution today. Out of which, water pollution is most concerned with civil engineering. Water treatment, supply and waste water treatment of domestics and industrial sources is very important aspect of civil engineering. Present work deals with the industrial waste water treatment. In may also Dairy industry uses 4L of water per L of milk, which cones out as a waste water, In fact, in a survey made by Environmental Protection Agency of U SA in 1950, the 2nd major cause of water pollution was dairy effluent (I) Dairy waste water is a diluted milk (1) It contains BOD, COD, total solids dissolved solids and sometimes PH and oil-grease as highly biodegradable and COD/BOD is less than 1.5

Keywords: dairy waste water, treatment, characteristics, housekeeping

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0309005