WASTE AUDITING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN IMPROVING THE DYEING INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT

Jegatheesan, V.; Lee, S. H.; Visvanathan, C.; Shu, L.; Marzella, M.

Environmental Engineering Research 1999;4(4): 283-291.

V. Jegatheesan², S. H. Lee¹^†, C. Visvanathan³, L. Shu⁴, and M. Marzella⁵

¹School of Architectural, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kumoh National University of Technology, Kumi 730-701, Korea
²Environmental Engineering Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
³School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klongluang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
⁴School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia
⁵4a Percy Street, Gladesville, NSW 2111, Australia

Corresponding Author: S. H. Lee ,

Received: June 14, 1999; Accepted: October 14, 1999.

ABSTRACT

A case study on the application of cleaner production opportunities for waste minimization in dyeing industry is discussed in this paper which was conducted by Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (CDG) South East Asia Program Office in collaboration with several Thai institutions. A waste audit was conducted as a first step in a dyeing factory, which leads to propose water reuse and waste segregation in order to implement cleaner production for waste minimization. Further more lab-scale experiments were conducted to find optimum treatment methods for the waste streams.

Keywords: cleaner production | dyeing process | waste audit | wastewater treatment