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Grey Water Treatment of Washing Machine at household level

A sustainable approach for the treatment of greywater produced by the washing machine   Problem Statement Title: A sustainable approach for the treatment of greywater produced by the washing machine. 1.Can the grey water be recycled for purpose of washing clothes again? If yes, what treatment technology is suitable in terms of economic feasibility and size? 2. How many times can the treated water be reused? 3. What combination of technologies can be used to achieve the aim? Abstract On a weekly basis, each household generates 1000L of greywater from washing machines.This report presents cheap, effective and scalable methodology to treat greywater produced bywashing machines, which constitutes of various pollutants like oil, sand, surfactants, organicmatter, heavy metals etc. The results showed that the COD , turbidity, TSS values greatly decrease by using the proposed treatment process, which consists of 4 stages: CFF system(coagulation-flocculation-floatation), sand f...