• Corpus ID: 53418045

BOD / COD a Measure of Dairy Waste Treatment Efficiency-A Case Study

@inproceedings{Meiaraj2016BODC,
  title={BOD / COD a Measure of Dairy Waste Treatment Efficiency-A Case Study},
  author={Dr. C. Meiaraj and Dr. N. Balasundaram},
  year={2016}
}

• Dr. C. Meiaraj, Dr. N. Balasundaram
• Published 2016

Our environment gets polluted day by day due to the disposal of sewage and industrial waste without proper treatment in a totally unscientific way. Environmental Engineering is concerned with all types of pollution and Industrial waste treatment is the core area under the present study. Dairy industry is one among the highly offensive waste generating areas which increases the pollution rate of the total environment. Dairy industry requires 2.5 to 4litres of water per litre of milk process which comes out as waste water. Various studies revealed that dairy waste water treatment is a complicated one. Waste water from dairy processing units contains dissolved sugars, proteins and fats which are organic in nature and biodegradable which liberates gases, causes taste and odour, and creates color and turbidity. So treatment of dairy waste has great importance and care should be taken before disposing to environment. This work is an assessment of the performance of few dairies based on BOD, COD, and BOD/COD ratio and further scope of research area has been identified.