Industrial Wastewater Treatment Proposal 2022

Running head: INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT
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INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT1
The waste water treatment in industries is a technique of processing the waste water
which have been contaminated due to certain commercial or industrial activities and disposed
as an undesirable by product by the industries (Patwardhan 2017). The waste water are
generally reused, released to the sewer or over surface water system within the environment
after the treatment (Droste and Gehr 2018). The waste water treatment benefits the
environment by directly discharging the waste water after undergoing a treatment process.
Moreover, it also helps the industries to reuse the treated water in ongoing industrial process
by saving huge cost.
However, there are various engineering problems or challenges in the waste water
treatment. The energy consumption increases due to inadequate and aging infrastructure. It is
estimated that the waste water treatment consume almost about 2 to 3 percent of the total
generated electricity of a developed nation every year, which is approximately 60 tWh
(terawatt hour) (Panepinto et al. 2016). The aging infrastructure which includes the tunnels
pipelines dams, storage, pumping and treatment facilities. These infrastructures draws a huge
amount of electricity due to aging technology and methodology. The infrastructure in such
developed countries results as a serious concern.
Thus updating the infrastructure into biological treatment process have the significant
potential to reduce the demand in the required energy at the treatment plants (Antonie 2018).
Hence, these are just the scope of the asset management within the industries and benefits for
such industries.
There are five proposal which can be made over the regulation of the industrial waste
water treatment. The five proposals are as follows:
i) Proposal 1: Keeping the infrastructure as it is.

INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT2
ii) Proposal 2: Introducing new stringent standards, specifically for certain organics
and pathogens and heavy metals with more strict regulation on its application, sampling and
monitoring of the sludge.
iii) Proposal 3: Introducing the rules and regulation over the application of the sludge
to some crops.
iv) Proposal 4: Banning the use lands for the releasing the waste water
v) Proposal 5: Revoking the instructions and standards regulations annually.
The social, economic and technical impact of the different proposal are listed below:
Proposal Social Impact Economic Impact Technical Impact
Proposal 1 0 0 0
Proposal 2 Increases the
benefits over the
human health form
the reduced
application
Cost of alternative
disposal reduces
New and technically
advanced
machineries are
requires
Proposal 3 The cost of human
health cost decreases
due the adoption of
alternatives routes of
disposal
Changes the
regulation over the
cost implications
The cost increases
due to the adoption
of new
methodologies and
monitoring process
Proposal 4 The unpleasant
odour from the
incarnation and land
filling decreases
The replacement
cost of the fertilizer
increases
Total ban on the
procedures may
portraits a negative
impact from the
technical aspects
Proposal 5 The unpleasant It is benefited from The regulations may