CONTENTS Chapter - 1. Introduction; Chapter - 2. Characteristics of Cotton Textile Processing Effluents; Sizing ; Desizing ; Scouring ; Bleaching ; Mercerizing ; Dyeing ; Printing ; Finishing ; Combined Effluent ; Chapter - 3. Treatment of Cotton Textile Processing Effluents Chapter - 4. Charactristics and Treatment of Synthetic Textile Processing Effluents ; Process and Characteristics of Effluents ; Treatment ; Chapter - 5. Knit Fabric Finishing ; Chapter - 6. Characteristics and Treatment of Woollen Textile Processing Effluents; Chapter - 7. Recent Trends in Textile Waste Water Management; Chapter - 8. Reduction of Pollution Load ; Waste segregation ; Recovery & Reuse of Sizes and Other Chemicals; Substitution of Low-Pollution Load Chemicals; Judicious use of chemicals ; Process changes ; Economy in Water use ; Chapter - 9. Recovery and Reuse of Sizes, Dyes and Other Chemicals; Recovery of PVA and other Sizing agents ; Caustic soda Recovery ; Recovery of Dyes ; Reuse of Ozonated Dyebath ; Recovery of Other Valuable materials ; Recovery of Heat ; Chapter - 10. Recycling and Reuse of Waste Water ; Chapter - 11. Conservation and Reuse of Water; Part - II. TREATMENT METHODS; Chapter - 12 Treatment Methods - An Introduction; Chapter - 13. Preliminary and Primary Treatments ; Screening; Equalization; Neutralization; Neutralization of Acidic Wastes ; Neutralization of Alkaline Wastes ; Coagulation; Coagulants; Auxiliary chemicals ; Flocculation - Aids; Coagulation & Flocculation Equipments ; Merits & Demerits of Coagulation ; Sedimentation; Floatation (Dissolved Air Floatation); Chapter - 14. Secondary Biological Treatment; Activated Sludge Process; Trickling Filtration ; Aerated Lagoons ; Oxidation Ponds ; Anaerobic Digestion ; Sludge Disposal ; Removal of Interfering Substances; Chapter - 15. Tertiary Treatment; Multimedia Filtration ; Chemical Coagulation ; Chemical Precipitation ; Disinfection ; Ozonation ; Activated Carbon Adsorption ; Membrane Technology ; Dialysis / Electro Dialysis ; Evaporation ; Chapter - 16. Advanced Methods for the Treatment of Textile Processing Waste Water ; Advanced Oxidation Processes ; Ozone Treatment ; Adsorption ; Membrane Technology ; Dialysis / Electrodialysis ; Ion Exchange ; Evaporation ; Crystallization ; Freezing ; Some Patented Technics for Color Removal ; Bio-mass based Technologies ; Cutting-EdgeTreatment Methods ; Chapter - 17. Advanced Oxidation Processes ; Non-Photo chemical Methods ; Ozonation ; Ozone/Hydrogen Peroxide Process ; Fenton Method ; Homogeneous Photochemical Oxidation Processes; Vacuum-UV Photo Oxidation ; UV and Ozone ; UV and Hydrogen Peroxide ; UV, Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide; Photo Fenton Method; Heterogeneous Photochemical Oxidation Processes ; Chapter - 18. Ozone Treatment ; Reactions of Ozone in Waste Water Treatment ; Oxidative Reactions and Color Removal ; BOD Reduction ; Sludge Reduction ; Advancements in Ozone Treatment; Chapter - 19. Activated Carbon Adsorption; Chapter - 20. Membrane Technology; Micro Filtration ; Ultra Filtration ; Nano Filtration ; Reverse Osmosis ; Disc and Tube Module; Membrane Bio-Reactors ; Part - III. ANALYSIS OF TEXTILE PROCESSING EFFLUENTS; Chapter - 21 Purpose of Examination; Chapter - 22. Collection of Waste Water samples; Chapter - 23. Recording of Results; Chapter - 24. Analytical Methods - Important Notes; Chapter - 25. Parameters to be determined on Textile Processing Effluents ; Chapter - 26. General Physico-Chemical Measurements; Chapter - 27. Measurement of Organic Pollution; Chapter - 28. Inorganic Constituents - Non Metallics ; Chapter - 29. Inorganic Constituents - Metals ; Chapter - 30. Miscellaneous Determination; Appendix; Index