Environmental Sustainability of Wastewater Qualitatively Discharged from Pharmaceutical, Alloy Tech, and Textile Industries through Effluent Analysis: Industrial Investigation in Bangladesh

Md. Ekhlass Uddin¹ , Omar Faruk² , Md. Faruk Hossen³ , Md. Ali Asraf⁴ , Md.Kudrat-E-Zahan ⁵

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.11 , Issue.1 , pp.5-13, Feb-2024

Online published on Feb 28, 2024

Copyright © Md. Ekhlass Uddin, Omar Faruk, Md. Faruk Hossen, Md. Ali Asraf, Md.Kudrat-E-Zahan . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Pharmaceutical, alloy tech, and textile assorted productions effectively contribute to Bangladesh`s domestic economy, where the regular treatment of pollutants from effluent wastewater is a basic demand to assure a good life and environmental sustainability. The concentration of the physicochemical analysis of wastewater emitted by industry is the goal of this current research. The samples were immediately allowed into the laboratory and characterized for pH, chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), dissolved oxygen (DO), total dissolved solids (TDS), and total suspended solids (TSS). The research findings indicate that the pH, BOD5, COD, DO, TSS, and TDS concentrations ranged from 6.8 to 8.57, 28.2-420 mg/L, 102-1238 mg/L, 1.15-5.5 mg/L, 78-306 mg/L, and 1188-3927 mg/L, in that order. Wastewater`s pH levels before and after treatment were determined to be within the permissible range for the environment, however, the levels of BOD5, COD, DO, TSS, and TDS before treatment were much higher. The improvement of freshwater`s characteristics indicates that it can be harmful to the aquatic chemistry nearby. This endeavor will create an effort for pharmaceuticals, alloy tech, and textile wastewater to be discharged with the standard allowable environmental quality through proper and accountable effluent analysis.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Wastewater, pH, BOD5, COD, DO, TSS, TDS, Industrial effluents

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