NIT-R researchers develop advanced system for wastewater treatment

A research team of National Institute of Technology-Rourkela (NIT-R) has developed an innovative system for efficiently treating industrial wastewater contaminated with persistent dyes such as Bismarck Brown R.

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The team led by Prof Sujit Sen of the department of Chemical Engineering and comprising research graduate of NIT-R Madhumita Manna and former professor of IIT Kharagpur Prof Binay Kanti Dutta, has come up with this cutting-edge wastewater treatment system by combining two advanced technologies for effective outcome.

The hybrid model efficiently treats wastewater from industries like textiles and dye manufacturing which is contaminated with stubborn dyes.

The conventional treatment methods including those relying on ultraviolet light often struggle with large-scale applications, especially when separating dye particles from water. Stubborn dyes such as Bismarck Brown R are small enough to pass through micro-filtration membranes of the existing methods to potentially cause significant environmental and health hazards.