Abstract
The terms: "pollution prevention", "waste minimization", "source segregation" and "in-plant control", have been increasingly mentioned over the past decade in conferences and projects related to industrial wastewater management. While end-of-pipe treatment of industrial wastes was a popular management approach only 20 years ago, advanced treatment/management concepts are more common today. An in-plant control program including waste segregation and process-specific pretreatments has been proposed for a complex industrial park, in place of a traditional central treatment of the combined park's wastewater. A protocol that enables selection of waste streams amenable to biological treatment and identification of problematic streams requiring pretreatment is presented and demonstrated in this paper. It includes simplified laboratory procedures for chemical and toxicological characterization of source streams and for screening their removability potential by biodegradation, volatilization, and carbon adsorption.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 217-222 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Environmental Engineering and Policy |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 1 Dec 1999 |
