Treatment of biorefractory textile and pharmaceutical effluents by advanced oxidation processes

Abstract

In textile industry the effluents generated after a series of wet processing activities contain high concentration of non biodegradable compounds soaps oil grease and alkaline rich wastes Similarly the effluents released by pharmaceutical manufacturing units are troublesome due to their complex nature and known to contain the ingredients that are designed to be highly active against microorganisms which include bacteria fungi etc Numerous physicochemical treatment methods were proposed to treat these effluents but many of them failed to degrade the effluents into non toxic materials due to their process nature Currently advanced oxidation processes are more lucrative on treating these industrial effluents Many of these processes are more efficient and do not generate secondary pollutants