An Investigation on the Industrial Wastewater in Tehran Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Tehran

2 Tehran Environmental Protection Agency

Abstract

During 1994 to 1999  a research program titled “A qualitative and quantitative review of industrial wastewater in Tehran province”  was done . This article presents the most important results obtained from this study . The research covered 330 food , textile , chemical , and Materials (Metal and liquid materials)  factories . Completing of the questionnaire , sampling from the wastewater and analyzing have been done for 5  years . The results show that completely wastewater treatment in food , textile and metal industries were done in 8% , 18% and 17% of units respectively . In chemical industries for major groups include pharmaceutical , soap and detergent , pulp and paper , and paint industries were studied . In pharmaceutical and pulp and paper industries , there were only one factory in each group which were doing a complete treatment , and in detergent and paint industries there were no complete treatment at all . Maximum discharge of wastewater in food and textile industries were into surface waters . They were 62.4% and 48.8% respectively . But mainly wastwater discharging in metal and liquid materials industries were into ground waters which were 86% and 83% respectively .

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Journal of Water and Wastewater; Ab va Fazilab ( in persian )
Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Serial number: 50
July and August 2005
Pages 34-44

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