relation: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/13527/
title: Impact assessment of wastewater discharge from  a textile industry in Lagos, Nigeria
creator: Durotoye, Taiwo Omowunmi
creator: Adeyemi, Aderonke A.
creator: Omole, D. O.
creator: Onakunle, M
subject: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
description: The quality of effluent from a wool and synthetic textile manufacturing  company in Nigeria was examined by obtaining triplicate samples per  week over a 6-week period. This was done to measure the waste-load and  volume from the textile industry. Obtained samples were analyzed for 18  physicochemical parameters such as pH, color, turbidity, total suspended solids,  total dissolved solids (TSS), conductivity, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen  demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), chloride, nitrates, phosphates,  some heavy metals and odor. Heavy metals, phosphate, and color were analyzed  using spectrophotometer while dissolved oxygen and BOD were analyzed  using azide modification method. The effluents were found to pass the national  standard for the effluent limit for 13 parameters but exceeded specified limits  for pH in one sample and, COD, TSS, color, turbidity and odor in all samples.  Turbidity was found to exceed national limits by 100 to 300%; COD exceeded  limits by 20% to 500%; TSS exceeded limits by 10% to 110% in 5 out of 6  samples analyzed. All obtained samples were dark colored and exceeded prescribed  limits by 2,000 to 3,000% in all samples. Likewise, all six samples had  an offensive odor. It was recommended that strict compliance with stipulated  standards was necessary for the protection of public health and the  environment
publisher: Cogent Engineering
date: 2018
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/13527/1/Impact%20assessment%20of%20wastewater%20discharge%20from%20a%20textile%20industry%20in%20Lagos%20Nigeria.pdf
identifier:   Durotoye, Taiwo Omowunmi and Adeyemi, Aderonke A. and Omole, D. O. and Onakunle, M  (2018) Impact assessment of wastewater discharge from a textile industry in Lagos, Nigeria.  Cogent Engineering.   ISSN 4: 1376488     
relation: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=oaen20
relation: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2018.1531687