At first should you ...
Published by Gunther Johne, Consultant - Environment Engineering (Water Treatment / Water Management / Resource Recovery)
At first should you deliberate over a question – will you recycle the chrome and tanning agents from your waste water and use these again for the tanning process or will you only pre-treat your waste water so that you can discharge it to the municipal sewage network. The recycling of chrome and other tanning agents can help you to minimize the costs of the waste water treatment. If you´ll have some information to the technologies what you can use for the recycling process please don´t hesitate to contact me direct.
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Gunther,
You are quite right - the first step is to look at options to eliminate or reduce the discharge of chromium by using alternative tanning agents (which may not be possible) and by recycling or reducing wastage within the tannery. THEN look at treating the effluent.
Published by Jeremy Biddle, Engineering Director at Bluewater Bio