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Paper industries using different raw materials such as hard wood, bamboo, baggase, rice-straw and waste papers and bleaching chemicals like chlorine, hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen peroxide, sulphite and oxygen were studied to estimate organic pollution load and Adsorbable Organic Halides (AOX) per ton of production. The hard wood based paper industries generate higher Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) loads (105’82 kg t−) and Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) loads (32.0’2 kg t−) compared to the agro and waste paper based industrial effluents. The bleaching sequences such as C–EP–H–H, C–E–H–H, C–E–Do–D1 and O–Do–EOP–D1 are adopted in the paper industries and the molecular elemental chlorine free bleaching sequence discharges low AOX in the effluent. The range of AOX concentration in the final effluent from the paper industries was 0.08’.99 kg t− of production. Water consumption was in the range of 100’30 m3 t− of paper production for wood based industries and 30’0 m3 for the waste paper based industries. Paper machine effluents are partially recycled after treatment and pulp mill black liquor are subject to chemical recovery after evaporation to reduce the water consumption and the total pollution loads. Hypochlorite bleaching units of textile bleaching processes generate more AOX (17.2’8.3 mg l−) and are consuming more water (45’0 l kg−) whereas alkali peroxide bleaching hardly generates the AOX in the effluents and water consumption was also comparatively less (40 l kg− of yarn/cloth).
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Ranganathan, K., Jeyapaul, S. & Sharma, D.C. Assessment of water pollution in different bleaching based paper manufacturing and textile dyeing industries in India. Environ Monit Assess 134, 363–372 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-007-9628-z
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