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Company Profile:-
A 10 year old food industry manufacturing chips and other food products. The plant is located in
Ranjangaon MIDC which is situated at 50 KM from Pune. Capacity of their effluent treatment
plant is 40 KLD.
Problem:-
To maintain the MLSS, they were adding 25Kg cow dung daily and they were getting yellowish
treated water due to addition of cow dung so frequently. The aim was to get clear treated water.
Plant Scheme:-
AIR
BLOWER
EFFLUENT FEED
PUMP
FILTER FEED
PUMP
O&G
TANK
EQUALIZATION
TANK
Outlet:-
S.No Parameters Treated wastewater
(out of secondary)
1 Flow m3/day 20-40
2 pH 7.5
3 BOD (mg/lit) 17.9
4 COD (mg/lit) 47.30
5 Total Dissolved Solids (mg/lit) 934
6 Total Suspended Solids (TSS) 52
7 Heavy metal (mg/lit) NA
8 Oil & Grease (mg/lit) Nil
9 Phenol (mg/lit) NA
10 Sulphide (mg/lit)
11 Chlorides (mg/lit) 180
12 Hardness (mg/lit) NA
866 866
900
800 754
700
600
500
400
336
308.2
300
190 180
200
47.3
100 52
17.9
0
mg/Lit mg/Lit mg/Lit mg/Lit mg/Lit
COD BOD TSS Chlorides TDS
Result
With the use of Bacta CultTM we started getting clear water after 7 days and on 12th day it was
totally clear.