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Wastewater from electroplating industries of Karachi
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:07 authored by Syed N. Altaf, Waseem AkhtarA field investigation has been carried out to quantify and characterise the effluent being discharged from the electroplating industries in Karachi. Seven factories were surveyed and their effluents analysed. It was estimated that the Ni-Cr plating industry was producing a liquid waste amounting to 0.1 to 0.4m3 per Kg of NiCr plated while in the Zn plating industry this value was 6 to 22m3 of wastewater per Kg of Zinc plated. The analysis of the effluent for the parameters such as pH, SS, TDS, COD, CN, and heavy metals (Cu. Co, I-Ig, Pb, Mn, Ni, Cr. Zn, Fe and Cd) showed that the effluent from all the factories except one did not conform to the National Environment Quality Standard (NEQS).
Funding
This project was funded by NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
ALTAF, S.N. and AKHTAR, W., 1998. Wastewater from electroplating industries of Karachi. IN: Pickford, J. (ed). Sanitation and water for all: Proceedings of the 24th WEDC International Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, 31 August-4 September 1998, pp.125-128.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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1998Notes
This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:10045Language
- en
