Title: Industrial pollution scenario due to discharge of waste water effluents along Dombivali Industrial Belt of Mumbai, India - a physico-chemical study

Authors: Pravin U. Singare; Sanjay S. Dhabarde

Addresses: Department of Chemistry, Bhavan's College, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai 400058, India ' Department of Chemistry, K.V. Pendharkar College, Dombivali (East), Thane 421201, India; Department of Chemistry, Pacific Academy of Higher Education and Research University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract: The paper deals with the study of physico-chemical parameters of industrial effluents discharged from different manufacturing industries situated along the Dombivali Industrial Belt of Mumbai, India. From the results it was observed that the conductivity, salinity, cyanide, TS and COD content of the effluents released from dyeing industries were maximum having the respective values of 23,287 µS/cm, 16.63 mg/kg, 0.099, 20,886 and 6,445 mg/L respectively. The effluents from dyeing industries were found to have lowest DO level of 3.63 mg/L. The alkalinity and phosphate content was maximum in the effluents discharged from textile industries having the values of 1,434 and 51.01 mg/L respectively. The effluents from fine chemical industries were found to be very hard having the hardness level of 1,755 mg/L and exhibit highest BOD level of 547 mg/L. These industrial effluents if released in the nearby water bodies may create threat to its biological life.

Keywords: physico-chemical parameters; industrial effluents; environmental pollution; Dombivali Industrial Belt; Mumbai; India; chemical oxygen demand; COD; biochemical oxygen demand; BOD; water pollution; conductivity; salinity; cyanide; TSS; total suspended solids; dyeing industry; alkalinity; phosphate content; textiles industry; fine chemical industry; hardness levels.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2014.062136

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2014 Vol.15 No.1, pp.20 - 35

Received: 04 Dec 2013
Accepted: 25 Jan 2014
Published online: 02 Jul 2014 *

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