Sanitary-Ware Industry

Ceramic tile and sanitary-ware industry is one of the important industry to be controlled for environmental issues.  Sınce it is an important source for wastewater production, designing a proper industrial wastewater treatment plant for ceramic tile and sanitary-ware industry become more critical.

Ceramic tile and sanitary ware industry produce high amount of wastewater which  is mainly generated from cleaning water in preparation and casting units and various processes such as glazing, decorating, polishing and wet grinding. Process wastewater contains significant amount of organic and inorganic pollutants, and chemical oxygen demand concentration (COD) and it may includes heavy metals such as boron, lead, aluminium, iron, copper, cadmium, manganese and zinc. Because of high mineral ingredient of produced materials, high amount of total suspended solids ( TSS) and total dissolved solids (TDS) are also present in ceramic tile and sanitary ware industry wastewater. This wastewater can be characterized by turbidity and coloring due to very fine suspended particles of glaze and clay materials.

Treatment of ceramic tile and sanitary ware industry wastewater includes steps:

• Flow and load equalization with pH adjustment
• Primary treatment such as screening and primary sedimentation for removal of solid particles
• Chemical coagulation process for removal of total suspended solids (TSS)
• Final sedimentation for suspended solids reduction by using settling basins or clarifiers
• Multimedia filtration for non settleable suspended solids reduction
• Dewatering and disposal of wastewater sludge
• And further treatment such as membrane filtration for removal of metals

EGESIS Environmental Technologies Inc. has years of experience of wastewater treatment plant construction and planning in ceramic tile and sanitary ware industry. Check out our references, projects of wastewater treatment plant for ceramic tile and sanitary ware companies.