| Abstract: | Polymers were used in the experiments to determine optimum type and dosage requited for effective treatment of an industrial effluent containing nitrocellulose fine particles. It was found that (a) contact flocculation filtration was not effective for treating the nitrocellulose-manufacturing wastewater due to the high initial turbidity; (b) mixing, flocculation, and settling of the wastewater with cationic polyelectrolyte and bentonite clay gave greater than 95% turbidity removal; (c) with the same optimum chemical dosages, mixing, flocculation and centrifugation also gave about 97% turbidity removal; and (d) with the same optimum chemical dosages, mixing, flocculation, sedimentation and filtration removed 99.9% of the wastewater turbidity. |
