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During the last 50-75 years, there has been ever-increasing efforts to somehow arrange manufacturing processes in such a way that they cause minimal damage to the environment. Efforts focused on the technology of waste treatment development at the same time, and an uneasy adversarial relationship developed between regulators and industry. Waste minimisation is the application of a systematic approach to reducing the generation of waste at source. In other words, waste minimisation prevents the waste from occurring in the first place, rather than treating it once it has been produced by end-of-pipe treatment methods. Waste minimisation applies to hazardous materials, non-hazardous materials, water, energy, raw materials, all waste emissions, and other resources. It is NOT a one-off activity, but an ON-GOING programme. That is, it is a technique that can be applied to all inputs to and outputs from, a process. Waste minimisation is important because it reduces operating costs, risk of liability and end-of-pipe treatment, improves process efficiency, enhances public image, protects health and environment, and improves employee moral. Waste is not only materials that are excess to requirements, but represents a loss of company profits. This article makes an attempt to review the various waste minimisation techniques and possibilities that are available for the textile industry today.
Source reduction
Waste minimisation is achieved through source reduction by making process and product changes. Product changes include increasing product life, and designing for less environmental impact. Process changes include improved operating practices, improved housekeeping, change in raw materials, change in technology, in-house reuse or recycling. End-of-pipe treatment is only considered after source reduction. Four main types of wastes are particularly amenable to source reduction: (1) Hard to treat, (2) Dispersible, (3) Offensive and (4) High volume. For each, there are major advantages in source reduction. Hard-to-treat wastes are persistent or resistant to normal treatment and include colour, metals, phosphates, and certain organic materials especially certain types of surfactants which resist biodegradation. These are often extremely expensive and difficult to remove or destroy via conventional wastewater treatment, and therefore source reduction is an economical and attractive alternative. Hard-to-treat wastes can be reduced at the source by chemical substitution, control and conservation, waste segregation, capture, reuse and recycle. In doing this, the goal is to make changes which either reduce the amount of hard-to-treat waste or make the wastes more treatable and less persistent. The second category, dispersible wastes, usually exists in concentrated form when they are created and at that point they can be captured or reduced by process modification at the source, or recycled. But, once discharged, they tend to become widely dispersed and hard to recapture and collect for treatment. Machinery design, chemical substitution, procedural remedies or other primary control measures can often accomplish excellent results at low cost for these wastes. In addition, reclaimed wastes in concentrated form have its highest potential for resale www.indiantextilejournal.com/articles/FAdetails.asp?id=1431
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Waste minimisation in textile industry | General | Features | The ITJ In addition, reclaimed wastes in concentrated form have its highest potential for resale or recycle. Textile examples of this type of waste include lint (eg, from air and water filters), print paste (eg, foam drum washers), waste foam coating operations (eg, foam back coatings), air emissions (eg, breathing losses from tanks), waste solvents from machine cleaning (eg, shop), still bottoms from solvent recovery (eg, dry cleaning), and batch dumps of unused mixes (eg, finishes). Even if not reused, collection, handling and disposal is usually much easier if the material is captured when least diluted or contaminated. Offensive or hazardous textile wastes include toxic air or water
emissions, eg, metals, various organic materials and surfactants. In many instances, chemical substitutions can effectively reduce production of undesirable process by-products or reduce their offensive nature. For these wastes, treatment often leads to undesirable waste treatment solids, eg, metal bearing sludges. Hazardous or toxic wastes are particularly offensive and they deserve special attention to reduce either volume or offensiveness. For textiles, hazardous or toxic wastes include metals, chlorinated solvents, non-degradable surfactants, and other non-degradable or volatile organic materials. These often arise from non-process sources, eg, machine cleaning, biocides. Appropriate reduction strategies include conservation, -- substitution, process or equipment modification maintenance and housekeeping improvements. The fourth group, high volume wastes, can sometimes be reduced by process modification or chemical substitution, or reused either on- or off-site. The most common examples of these in textiles are hydraulic loading (high volume of wastewater), wash water from preparation and continuous dyeing, sizes and alkaline waste from preparation, air from hot air dryers, and dye waste containing large amounts of salt, acid or alkali. These can often be reduced by segregation and subsequent recycle, as well as by process and equipment modifications. Especially important are wasted chemicals (batch dumps and cleanup activities) of starch size, knitting oils and degradable surfactants. Each of the above four types of waste may originate from a variety of textile operations and can be addressed by reduction conservation strategies, process modifications, chemical substitutions and other techniques which reduce the sources of these wastes in textile wet processing, including preparation, dyeing, printing, finishing and other sources. Since every operation is different, it is not possible to specify exact universally applicable method for source reduction activities. The main ingredient in a successful source reduction program is to encourage individuals to look for waste reduction opportunities and take appropriate action. Source reduction techniques can generally be viewed in terms of several classifications as shown in Figure 1. These include common sense, good work practices, known technologies already in commercial use, known technologies not in commercial use, new technologies based on known science and, finally, new science. The worst mills do not even use good work practices and common sense. Average mills use good work practices as well as some known technologies. A "state of the art" mill will use all economically proven technologies. "Best available technology" would involve the application of all know technologies. Development of new technology or new science can be very expensive. A common mistake of textile mills is to jump into the middle of the waste reduction curve, thus encountering high cost and poor results. The best strategy for a source reduction program is to take things one step at a time, keeping the pollution source reduction program simple and efficient at first and avoiding any attempt to substitute high tech approaches for common sense and good work practices. Only after laying a proper foundation of common sense, good attitudes and work practices can a mill expect to successfully move on to the "high tech source reduction approaches.
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leads to constant adjusting of the process and equipment with little if any permanent improvements. Thus the concepts of source reduction, process efficiency, cost reduction and quality control go hand-in-hand. Raw materials coming into a textile process generally include commodities such as water, substrate (yarn, fibre, and fabric), salt and size, as well as speciality process chemicals and dyes. Raw material control can be exercised both by prescreening materials before use and by testing shipments as they are received. These precautions provide many important benefits, not the least of which are reduction of off-quality goods, lower reworks, and improved product uniformity. Each of these increases manufacturers profits while reducing waste associated with inefficient processes, reworks and remakes. These techniques also allow the mill to screen out raw materials which will ultimately produce offensive wastes. In this process, be sure to include shop and maintenance chemicals. It is not unusual to find dyeing and other procedures in textile wet processing which use excessive amounts of chemicals or unnecessary chemicals. Often chemicals are unnecessarily added to procedures to counteract the side effects of other chemicals. For example, defoamer is frequently added to reduce foaming caused by other chemical specialties. In many cases, it is more judicious to adjust, substitute, or to remove offending chemicals from a process than to add more chemicals to offset undesired side effects. Even better, it is often possible to accomplish the desired result by machine set up, time temperature and other processing parameter adjustments, without using chemicals at all. Such conservative use of chemicals can significantly reduce waste loads, cut processing costs and increase quality. Recycle/reuse is not a source reduction activity, it does deserve comment here. It is good economic sense to avoid dumping unused portions of chemical mixes, but this still happens in many types of continuous textile operations such as slashing, preparation, continuous dyeing, printing, coating and finishing. Batch dumps are expensive and account for a major portion of a processor's waste load. To salvage unused mixes, segregation of wastes is the first step in recycle/recovery, since mixed wastes are generally not reusable. Even if wastes are not recycled, there are several reasons that segregation of wastes may be desirable. Specific treatments, such as neutralisation of acid/alkali and oxidation/reduction wastes are more effective prior to mixing. Recovery/reuse systems generally are more effective when the waste stream is most concentrated. Mixing hazardous and non-hazardous (or hard to treat and easily treatable) wastes can create unnecessarily large volumes of hazardous (or hard to treat) wastes.
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# Recipe optimisation: Recipes are generally fail-safe designed which results in the over-use of chemicals. Optimising the quantity of chemicals required will lead to more efficient chemical use and lower costs. Continual updating of recipes should be carried out when new dyestuffs enter the market as, in general, less of these chemicals are required. # Dosing control: Overdosing and spillages can be reduced by mixing chemicals centrally and pumping them to the machines. Check that manual measuring and mixing is carried out efficiently and automatic dispensers are properly calibrated. # Pre-screen chemicals and raw materials: Avoid dyestuffs containing heavy metals, solvent-based products and carriers containing chlorinated aromatics. Safety data sheets should be obtained from the chemical manufactures to obtain information such as toxicity, BOD and COD. Check that raw materials do not contain toxic substances. Check that companies will accept expired raw materials for disposal. # Chemical substitution: Review chemicals used in the factory and replace those hazardous to the environment with those that have less of an impact. Use dyes that have high exhaustion rates and require less salt. Specifically replace metal-containing dyes, use bi-reactive dyes in place of mono-reactive, avoid the use of APEO detergents and replace with more biodegradable alternatives, replace stilbene optical brighteners with alternatives, or eliminate altogether, dye wool with dyes that do not require after-chroming. # Correct storage and handling: More effective control of the storage and handling of chemicals will results in less spillage reaching the drains. # Chemical recovery and reuse: Chemical use may be reduced through recovery and reuse. For example, sodium hydroxide from mercerising can be recovered through evaporation. Dye baths may be reused and size can be recovered for reuse. # Process changes: Investigate the feasibility of changing to cold-pad batch dyeing. This results in less chemicals being used (and in particular, salt) and reduces water consumption significantly. # Improve scheduling: Review the scheduling of continuous processes such as sizing, desizing, padding etc. to ensure that the same chemical bath is used as many times as possible, thus reducing the number of dumps to drain per day.
Energy conservation
As with water conservation, reductions in energy use can result in substantial savings and lower emissions from boilers or generating plants. They include optimising compressed air generation, installing compressor control systems, and general housekeeping Reduce cooling loads, decrease condensing temperature (as a guideline, reducing condensing temperature by 1oC will yield savings of between 2% and 4% of annual refrigeration cost); Increase evaporating temperature (as a guideline, increasing evaporator temperature by 1oC will yield savings of between 2% and 4% of annual refrigeration cost); Compressor control, incorrect control of compressors can increase costs by 20%, or more; Boiler blowdown, economisers, insulation, flash steam recovery, good housekeeping, installing heat exchangers, optimising plant environmental conditions, shutting off of lighting, air-conditioning, etc.
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for subsequent processing as any impurities remaining on the fabric will interfere with the dyeing and finishing processes. Some waste minimisation options for the preparation department are listed below. * Desizing: The effluent from desizing will contain the sizes that were added onto the yarn before weaving/knitting. Using and recycling synthetic sizes in place of starch sizes will reduce the pollution load from desizing. * Scouring: Incoming raw material should be screened for toxic chemicals as these will be removed during the scouring process. Detergents should be easily biodegradable. Avoid the following detergents: linear alkylbenzenesulphonate; nonylphenoletoxylate; dialkyldimthyl ammonium chloride; distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride; di dimethyl ammonium chloride; sulphosuccinates; alkylphenolethoxylates; complexing agents with poor biodegradability (eg, EDTA; phosphonic acid; NTA; phosphonates). Reuse scours washwater for desizing. Recycle continuous scour washwater to batch scouring. * Bleaching:
Replace the use of chlorites and hypochlorites with hydrogen peroxide. Ensure that bleaching is carried out efficiently. Recycle bleach washwater for scouring. Use vacuum slots to remove excess solution which can then be reused. * Singeing: Little or no pollution arises from singeing. Ensure that air scrubbers are installed to trap particles that are burnt off the fabric. Cooling water can be reused elsewhere in the factory. Remove lint from the pad solution to reduce the frequency of dumping. * Mercerising: Recycling of sodium hydroxide through evaporation for reuse in mercerising or scouring will decrease the pollution load and chemical consumption. * Batch processing: There are a number of waste minimisation options for batch processing. These include cascading multiple rinsing operations. Reusing softening baths with reconstitution. Reusing preparation baths (scouring and bleaching) with reconstitution after filtration to remove impurities. Segregating coloured effluent streams from clean streams (preparation and rinsing) to ensure that only concentrated effluent is treated. This clean effluent may be used elsewhere in the factory. Installing automatic shut-down of water in overflow cooling when the required temperature has been reached. Replacing outdated machines with high liquor ratios with more modern equipment. Carrying out softening on a pad mangle. Replacing batch-wise rinsing with continuous rinsing with counter current flow.
Dyeing
* Batch dyeing: Careful selection of dyes is important. Dyes should have high fixation/exhaustion, low toxicity, absence of metals, and be appropriate for the end use. Correct and efficient application procedures must be used and right-first-time production should be achieved. The main areas for waste minimisation include : Using low liquor ratios; Using automated dye and chemical dosing systems; Reusing dyebaths, rinse water and softening baths; Ensuring a good cloth preparation; Optimising pH and salt for each recipe; Avoiding the use of auxiliaries that reduce or retard exhaustion; Using bireactive dyes; Using the newer low-salt reactive dyes; Optimising dyeing temperatures; Avoiding the addition of more chemicals to offset the effects of other chemicals -- use other non-chemical methods such as procedural or mechanical alterations or change the dye selection; Replacing the use of acetic acid in neutralising after dyeing with formic acid or dilute hydrochloric acid (acetic acid adds to the COD of effluent). * Continuous dyeing: The main waste minimisation strategies in continuous dyeing are to: Maximize dye fixation; Minimize wash-off; Avoid discards and machine cleaning wastes during start-up, shut-down and changes of colour and style; Minimize the number of times a dyebath has to be dropped and cleaned due to a colour change by careful scheduling; Use automated colour kitchens to minimise the working losses and discards; Improve washing efficiency through the installation of flow
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restrictors to control water volumes; Use counter current washing procedures; Optimise dosing of chemicals through monitoring of relevant parameters such as pH, absorbance, turbidity, etc. * General waste minimisation options for dyeing: Operate at lowest possible bath ratio -- this leads to a reduction in operating costs, water consumption, chemical use, energy use and less effluent discharge; Minimise stripping and/or redyeing procedures; Avoid shading additions; Avoid the use of detergents to wash fabric after reactive dyeing; high temperatures are just as effective; Minimise auxiliary use. The greatest costs in reprocessing are associated with the cost of dyes and chemicals -- typically, the costs can increase by as much as 30%. In dyeing polyester, avoid the use of carriers by upgrading dye machinery or replace with less harmful alternatives. Good fabric preparation increases the chance of right-first-time dyeing as fixation is improved. Dye fixation onto cotton can be improved by mercerising the yarn or fabric prior to dyeing.
Printing
Pollutants associated with printing include suspended solids, solvents, foam, colour and metals, and in general, large volumes of water are consumed during the washing-off stages. The main areas of waste minimisation in printing include raw material conservation, product substitution, process and equipment modifications, material handling, scheduling and waste recovery. Other options include: Waste minimisation in the design stages can eliminate the need for dyes containing metals. Careful selection of surfactants. Reducing air emissions by replacing solvents with water-based alternatives. Routine and careful maintenance of printing equipment. Training employees in the practices of good housekeeping. Reusing water from washing the print blanket. Turning off wash water when machine is not running. Installing automated colour kitchens. Reusing left over print paste. Removing excess paste from drums, screens and pipes by dry techniques (wiping with a squeegee, etc) before washing with water. This reduces the colour load discharged to drain. Careful scheduling to prevent expiration of print pastes before use. Investigating alternatives to urea as this increases the nitrogen in the effluent.
Finishing
There are a number of finishing processes that are carried out on the fabric after dyeing and/or printing. These can be achieved by chemical or mechanical methods. Some waste minimisation options are listed below : Design fabrics such that the need for chemical finishes are minimised. Use mechanical alternatives to chemical finishes. Use low add-on methods. Minimise volatile chemical use. Avoid mix discards through careful preparation. Install automated chemical dispensing systems. Train employees in good housekeeping practices. Use formaldehyde-free cross-linking agents.
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Reduce solid waste by reducing the need for selvedge trimming through
better width control, training workers and collecting selvedge trim for resale. Investigate the use of spray application of finishes as these have a low add-on and require no residual dumping at the end of a run.
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and microfiltration as stand-alone treatment methods are only suitable for reducing COD and suspended solids from solution. They are effective in combination with other treatment methods such as coagulation/flocculation. They are also useful for the partial removal of colour and organics prior to discharge to sewer. Microfiltration removes colloidal material such as disperse and vat dyes. Adsorbents: In order for an adsorbent to work effectively, the concentration of the impurities in the effluent stream must remain fairly constant to prevent the release of the adsorbed material back into the effluent if the concentration falls. Activated carbon is the most commonly used adsorbent and it is effective in removing organic components from the effluent (but not inorganic compounds). Once saturated, it must be regenerated or disposed of. Regeneration is costly, and in most cases it is trucked off site and disposed of in landfill. Care must be taken with the disposal method as the organics may leach out over time and cause pollution problems at a later date. Other adsorbents include inorganic compounds such as silica, cinder ash and various clays. Trade name adsorbents such as Macro-sorbs and COLFLOC have been shown to be effective at removing colour from reactive dyebath effluent, although disposal of the sludge may be problematic. Bioadsorbants are naturally occurring polymers that are biodegradable and have structures that allow the adsorption of species within them, or which act as ion-exchangers. Synthetic cellulose bioadsorbants have also been developed and preliminary investigations into their use for removing colour due to reactive dyes show promising results Oxidation: Oxidants decolourise dyes by breaking down the dye molecule. Commonly used processes are ozone and Fenton's Reagent. Ozone has been investigated in a number of studies. It has been found that dye wastewaters react differently depending on the composition. Effluent containing sulphur and disperse dyes are difficult to decolourise, whereas colour due to reactive, basic, acid and direct dyes is removed fairly easily. The main drawback with installing an ozonation plant is the high capital and operating costs. However, improvements in generator and contacting equipment design, together with increasingly strict environmental legislation will probably lead to a more widespread application. Fenton's Reagent consists of ferrous salt (usually sulphate) and hydrogen peroxide. The reaction is carried out at a pH of 3 and involves the oxidation of ferrous ion to ferric ion with the simultaneous production of the hydroxyl radical. This radical is a powerful oxidizing agent and will attack organic compounds and cleave the bonds. In the case of dye molecules, this would lead to decolourisation. A disadvantage (in terms of costs for the discharger) is the production of ferric hydroxide sludge, but it is thought that this sludge is advantageous to the biological treatment system. Other oxidation methods include the use of ultraviolet light in conjunction with a photocatalyst (titanium dioxide), or other chemical agents such as hypochlorite (the use of which is not encouraged as chlorinated organic species may be formed which are themselves toxic to the environment). The main drawback of these above methods is that it is not known what degradation products are formed from the oxidation process and it may be the case that these end products, although colourless, may be more toxic than the original dye molecules.
Biological treatment
Aerobic treatment: The majority of sewage works are based on the principle of aerobic treatment, where the incoming effluent is exposed to bacteria which convert the components into carbon dioxide and sludge, which is then sent to an anaerobic digester for further treatment. It has been found by a number of researchers that aerobic treatment methods are not sufficiently able to treat the colour from the textile industry, and any colour removal that does take place is due to adsorption onto the sludge, rather than degradation of the dye molecule. Anaerobic digestion: Anaerobic digestion is the biodegradation of complex organic substances in the absence of oxygen to yield carbon dioxide, methane and water. It is an effective process for treating high COD wastes (eg, size, desize washing and scouring) and the methane that is produced can be utilised as energy for heating, etc. The reducing conditions in an anaerobic digester have been found to cause decolourisation of azo dyes through cleavage of the azo bond and subsequent destruction of the dye chromospheres. Complete mineralisation of these degradation products does not take place and aromatic amines may be present in the effluent from the digester.
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Conclusion
The textile industry emits a wide variety of pollutants from all stages in the processing of fibres and fabrics. These include liquid effluent, solid waste, hazardous waste, emissions to air and noise pollution. The consumption of energy must also be taken into account as the fuel used to provide this energy contributes to the pollution load. In general, effluents that are high in COD are most effectively treated by biological methods, either aerobic or anaerobic. There are a number of methods for removing colour from effluents, depending on the class of dye used, but the most effective over the range of dyes is oxidation methods (such as Fenton's Reagent) or membrane treatment using reverse osmosis. Effluents that are high in BOD and SS are best removed through coagulation and flocculation methods followed either by settling or dissolved air flotation. Those effluent streams containing alkaline (mercerising and bleaching) can be treated by membranes (ultrafiltration) or evaporation and reused in the same process. The same is true for synthetic sizes where they can be recycled after filtration. As mentioned previously, there is no one single treatment technology that can effectively treat the final effluent from the textile industry and a combination of the available methods is necessary in order to achieve the required discharge standards. It is important to investigate all aspects of reducing wastes and emissions from the textile industry, since this will result in not only improved environmental performance, but also substantial savings for the individual companies References 1. Susan Barclay and Chris Buckley: Waste Minimisation Guide for the Textile Industry -- A Step Towards Cleaner Production, Volume I. 2. Turner MT: Waste Water Treatment and Re-use within the Textile Industry, Water Services Annual Technical Survey, 1978. 3. Anon: Economics of Reclaimed Water in Dyeworks, International Dyer and textile Printer. 4.Brent Smith: Waste Minimisation, NCSU College of Textiles, Raleigh, N C. 5. Montgomery V: Reclaiming Water, Modern Textiles, 1976, Vol 57, No. 8. 6 .Clarke E A and Steinle D (1995): Health and Environmental Safety Aspects of Organic Colourants. Review in Progress Colouration 25, 1-5. 7. Laing I G (1991): The Impact of Effluent Regulations on the Dyeing Industry. Review in Progress Colouration 12: 56 70. 8. Pollution Research Group (1983), A Guide for the Planning, Design and Implementation of Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Textile Industry. Part One: Closed Loop Treatment / Recycle System for Textile Sizing / desizing Effluents. Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa. 9. Textile Federation (1999), Textile Statistics and Economic Review 1999/2000. 10. http://www.intota.com/viewbio.asp?bioID=605178&perID=718648
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11. National Productivity Council (1994), From Waste to Profits: Guidelines for Waste Minimisation, New Delhi, India. Note: For detailed version of this article please refer the print version of The Indian Textile Journal September 2008 issue. N Karthikeyan Department of Textile Technology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu. Email: karthikn15@gmail.com. J Joshuva Alexander Department of Textile Technology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu.
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