Mumbai university > Civil > SEM 8 > Industrial Waste Treatment

Marks: 8M

Year: May 2015

• Effluent is an out flowing of water or gas from a natural body of water, or from a manmade structure. Effluent, in engineering is the stream exiting a chemical reactor.

• Effluent is defined as waste water-treated or untreated-that flows out of a treatment plant sewer or industrial outfall. Generally refers to wastes discharged into surface waters.

• Effluent in the artificial sense is in general considered to be water pollution such as the outflow from a sewage treatment facility or the waste water discharge from industrial facilities.

• An effluent sump pump, for instance, pumps waste from toilets installed below a main sewage line.

• In the context of a thermal power station, the output of the cooling system may be referred to as the effluent cooling water, which is noticeably warmer than the environment. Effluent only refers to liquid discharge.