A state-of-art zero liquid discharge (ZLD) research laboratory, inaugurated at IIT will work with user industries to provide necessary testbed facilities for evaluating various new/modified technologies related to ZLD development for target industries.
The objective of the facility is to provide solutions to industry specific needs. The chemical composition of effluents from different industries are unique and needed a special focus. Five PhD students are manning the laboratory and trying different membranes on effluent types. The laboratory has an UV photocatalytic reactor, which can treat even emerging effluents.
Bhaskar Ramamurthi, director, IIT Madras, said IIT’s Centre for Urbanisation Building and Environment (CUBE) would undertake pilot scale trials of the innovation technologies at industrial sites also. The lab was sponsored and inaugurated by N Sankar, chairman, The Sanmar Group.