Odour Removal in Leather Tannery ()
Abstract
Toxic odour causes pollution to environment. Removal of odour from wet processing sections of leather tanneries is important to preserve safety and occupational health. Such odour causing gases are identified in nature and are identified mostly as ammonia, Hydrogen sulfide and Volatile organic compounds. These gases, evolving from tanning drums, were experimentally quantified and analysed. Techniques for the abatement of odorous gases are designed using chemical methods. Scrubbing towers based on absorption of gases by liquid are designed and fabricated to evaluate the performance of the system in laboratory scale. Those gases were reduced in the concentration by absorbing through the packed bed vapour phase absorption using the activated carbon as the adsorbent. Results are helpful to conclude that the absorption technique presented here to reduce these toxic emission loads, seems to be simpler and economically cheaper.
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C. Panda, R. , Lajpathi Rai, C. , Sivakumar, V. and Baran Mandal, A. (2012) Odour Removal in Leather Tannery.
Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science,
2, 199-203. doi:
10.4236/aces.2012.22024.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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