Donor: Ministry of textiles and jute Bangladesh

Topic: Research on a feasibility study on Zone wise common effluent treatment plant (CETP) for textile wastewater management.

Background of the research: Common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) are treatment systems specifically designed for the collective treatment of effluent generated from small-scale industrial facilities in an industrial cluster (Vyas et al., 2011). There are many small scale zone wise industries in Bangladesh like industries in Gazipur Zone, industries in Savar zone, industries in Rupgonj Zone, industries in Narayanganj zone, industries in Hajigonj zone, etc. Effluent treatment plants need land for construction, capital cost, power, specialized manpower, and mostly their willingness for their operation and maintenance. Because of these problems small industries discharge their wastewater in the open environment like rivers or canals without any treatment. Those effluents have very adverse effect on our environment and also on human health issues.  So if government take a project to set up some common effluent treatment plant (CETP) and ask every small and any size industries (who are willing to join) to join in the CETP. The management and treatment costs will be shared by the member industries. This initiative will reduce the discharge of untreated effluents and industries can meet the ZDHC requirements.

Method and Design of the project: To set up this zone wise CETP project, some feasibility study should be done. First, we collect some data like,

1. We will calculate the zone wise number of textile industries who do not use any ETP,

2. Their per day/month/yearly production amount,

3. Amount of per day effluents,

4. Number of used chemicals,

5. Chemical Names and brand names,

6. Amount of chemical used per day,

7. per day used the total amount of water in the industry,

8. Distance of the industry from our estimated CETP,

9. Analysis of cost-effective best quality different ETP system,

10. Cost calculation to set up the CETP,

11. Analysis of the management of treated water,

12 Analysis on the management of sludge generated from CETP,

13. Analysis on how much manpower needs for the CETP,

14 After analysis set up an approximate monthly management and treatment costs for each industry.

** Some other points maybe included herein broad research team meeting. **

These all research and feasibility test will be done by my very experienced, dynamic team who have background in textile, mechanical, chemical, civil, electrical, architectural and environmental experience.

Result and Conclusion: This bust project will be very effective for our RMG industries. It will help the industries to get international many accreditations which may influence the international buyer.

My Profile: I was from a textile chemical background and also worked for a dyeing industry as a production engineer for almost 2 years. At that time, I had to follow-up on the ETP of the industry. Now I am in the teaching profession for the last 2.5 years Textile Engineering (Wet Processing). I supervised many students who worked on ETP related projects. “Implementation of ETP in textile industry & effect of wastewater on Environment” one of my articles is under review. One of my research work is ongoing on ETP sludge management. Also, my three research paper was published in the very good journal on other topics.

Another hand, because in the teaching profession I have a huge research team of (students, teachers, and professionals) to do this project. Also, I have direct field experience on this matter. SO I hope if you give me a good fund for this research, my team can give you better feedback, and also you will get a better result from this fund.

The estimated time to complete the research is 1 year. 

Rois Uddin Mahmud
Lecturer
Department of Textile Engineering
BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology.