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Fundamental of Aerobic and Anaerobic Processes in Dye Wastewater

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One of the critical challenges of the textile industry is the removal and degradation of dyes. While designing a wastewater treatment plant, the design, environment, and toxicity concerns associated with releasing textile effluents into a water body must be considered. The various traditional methods like coagulation, adsorption, oxidation, and flocculation are used to remove the contamination. Compared to all oxidation and physicochemical methods, the biological process, either aerobic or anaerobic is easy and demonstrates substantial benefits. This chapter covers the different aerobic and anaerobic processes employed to remove contaminants from textile industries.

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Jain, P., Bhavani, A.G., Singh, P., Singh, M.B. (2022). Fundamental of Aerobic and Anaerobic Processes in Dye Wastewater. In: Khadir, A., Muthu, S.S. (eds) Biological Approaches in Dye-Containing Wastewater. Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0545-2_2

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