A CASE STUDY ON WASTE AUDITING IN AN ICE
CREAM FACTORY

Jegatheesan, V.; Lee, S. H.; Visvanathan, C.; Tariman, C. A.; Shu, L.; Marzella, Maria

Environmental Engineering Research 1999;4(2): 103-111.

A CASE STUDY ON WASTE AUDITING IN AN ICE CREAM FACTORY

V. Jegatheesan¹^†, S. H. Lee², C. Visvanathan³, C. A. Tariman³, L. Shu⁴, and Maria Marzella⁵

¹School of Civil Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
²School of Architectural, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kumoh National University of Technology, Kumi 730-701, Korea
³Environmental Engineering Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, PO Box 4, Klongluang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
⁴School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
⁵7 Surrey Street, Stanmore, NSW, Australia

Corresponding Author: V. Jegatheesan ,

Received: February 11, 1999; Accepted: May 10, 1999.

ABSTRACT

The management of the ice cream factory concerned in this study strongly felt the importance of undertaking a waste audit of its biggest waste generator, the ice cream plant. Ice cream wastewater constitutes as much as 74 % of the total volume of wastewater discharged by the company to the central treatment plant of the Industrial Estate in which the factory is situated. Generation of ice cream wastes is attributed to the high consumptive use of water in the plant for washing and cleaning operations. As a result of waste auditing, methods were proposed to save water and to segregate the waste, and to modify the existing wastewater treatment system of the ice cream plant for better treatment efficiency

Keywords: waste auditing | ice cream wastewater | treatment plant