Assessment of the best available wastewater management techniques for a textile mill: Cost and benefit analysis

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2010-01-01

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Dogan, Bugce
Kerestecioglu, Merih
Yetiş, Ülkü

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In the present study, several water recovery and end-of-pipe wastewater treatment alternatives were evaluated towards the evaluation of Best Available Techniques (BATs) for the management of wastewaters from a denim textile mill in accordance with the European Union's Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive. For this purpose, an assessment that translates the key environmental aspects into a quantitative measure of environmental performance and also financial analysis was performed for each of the alternatives. The alternatives considered for water recovery from dyeing wastewaters were nanofiltration (NF) with coagulation and/or microfiltration (MF) pre-treatment, ozonation or peroxone and Fenton oxidation. On the other hand, for the end-of-pipe treatment of the mill's mixed wastewater, ozonation, Fenton oxidation, membrane bioreactor (MBR) and activated sludge (AS) process followed by membrane filtration technologies were evaluated. The results have indicated that membrane filtration process with the least environmental impacts is the BAT for water recovery. On the other side, MBR technology has appeared as the BAT for the end-of-pipe treatment of the mill's mixed wastewater. A technical and financial comparison of these two BAT alternatives revealed that water recovery via membrane filtration from dyeing wastewaters is selected as the BAT for the water and wastewater management in the mill. © IWA Publishing 2010.

Subject Keywords

Best available techniques, Cost-benefit analysis, Cross-media effects, IPPC directive, Textile industry

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/107619

Journal

Water Science and Technology

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2010.006

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Department of Environmental Engineering, Article

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B. Dogan, M. Kerestecioglu, and Ü. Yetiş, “Assessment of the best available wastewater management techniques for a textile mill: Cost and benefit analysis,” Water Science and Technology, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 963–970, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/107619.