13th AICLST Congress · 2026 · TC-28-P
U. Sathya1*, Dinakaran, M. Karthikeyam
… Tannery wastewater is characterized by the presence of high concentrations of organic matter, sulphides, salinity, chromium, etc. Conventional treatment methods which involves many stages of operations such as secondary clarifier, tertiary treatment, etc. often …
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U.Sathya, K.Thirumaran, B.Pugazhenthi, S.V.Srinivasan
… wastewater and solid waste which would affect the environment, if it is not properly collected, treated and disposed. In order to control the pollution, in India during earlier 90’s individual Effluent Treatment Plants …
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Sreeparna Das, 1Sanjoy Chakraborty, 2Narayan Ghorai, 1Subhra Kumar Mukhopadhyay
… Although it is ironic that both the establishment and operation of conventional wastewater treatment plants are prohibitively expensive, the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Kolkata demonstrates that bioremediation offers a viable alternative in …
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S Sundarapandiyan, H Poovarasan, S Nithiyanantha Vasagam,T Shakila Shobana
… To address this limitation, CLI-Mate, an exclusive digital platform, has been developed to assess the carbon footprint of leather manufacturing operations and associated wastewater treatment systems with high precision and reproducibility. By quantifying …
Open original PDF →XXXVIII IULTCS Congress · 2025 · L-O-024
Marcelo Bertazzo; Alex Migallón; Margarita Rodríguez Álvarez; Elena Orgilés Calpena
A standardized protocol to assess the biodegradability of tanned leathers using an inoculum derived from biological wastewater treatment systems is outlined in ISO 20136:2020 Leather — Determination of degradability by micro-organisms. Over a …
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Massimiliano Franceschi, Silvia Pierozzi, Claudio Luchetti, Francesca Braca, Valeria Bevilacqua; Francesca Gambineri, Fabrizia Turchi, Antonio Cecchi
… The offi cial method UNI EN ISO 20136:2020 [1] allows determining the aerobic biodegradability of leather articles in conditions similar to a biological wastewater treatment, but presently there are no offi cial methods …
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Samrat Shukla, Abhyudaya Dixit
This paper presents the design and performance evaluation of a modular effluent treatment system (ETS) tailored for medium-scale tannery wastewater. Tannery effluent is highly polluted, containing organics (BOD, COD), suspended solids, sulfides and …
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Wolfram Scholz
… A Dissolved Air Flotation installed at a wet-blue tannery, has shown to efficiently remove chrome from tanyard wastewater, achieving a clear effluent with <0,25 mg/l chrome. The chrome treatment is completely …
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Vera Radnaeva, Tatyana Damdinova
… Strict requirements for the quality of discharged wastewater prevent the processing of leather and fur raw materials in the central, buffer, and atmospheric zones of the specially protected area of Lake Baikal. It is …
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Marco Bidoggia, Alessandra Vangelista, Stella Massaro
The sludge drying system envisages treating the wastewater from tanning water treatment plants, downstream of mechanical dewatering. The sludge has a dry matter of 20÷25%, so it is mainly composed of water. This …
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