Pilot Tiruppur Textile CETP Set Up With German Collaboration

A pilot plant to treat textile effluents was inaugurated at Kunnankalpalayam Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Tiruppur. The pilot project has been undertaken in collaboration with Germany.

After lab tests, a pilot-scale electrochemical ozone oxidation process (ECOOP) reactor and CDI were installed at Kunnankalpalayam CETP and it can treat 350 litres of effluent per hour.

Funding for the three-year project is from the Indo German Science and Technology Centre and is taken up under the Indo German collaboration.

IIT Madras, RWTH Aachen University, Goeth Universitat, Tamil Nadu Water Investment Company, Ibacon and Eurofins are the partners for the project.

The technology removes colour and chemical oxygen demand (COD), does not produce sludge, while skipping two processes deployed now in effluent treatment, offering savings in cost, manpower and space.

The project was launched in 2020 and trials at the field level will go on for about six months.

“The technology can reduce the large land requirements, high aeration, skill and time taken of a biological waste water treatment,” a press release informed.