Objective The leather finishing industry uses a large amount of water (about 17M3/Tm of leather) and thus produces great quantities of waste water. These effluents are normally treated conventionally by use of flocculation/coagulation, which manage to reduce the COD, solids in suspension and colour, but in many cases still do not come up to prevailing standards. Aware of the scarcity of water in certain regions of the south of Europe, the possibility arose to produce a treatment of these effluents that would surpass legal requirements and aiming to save water recycling more than 90% of the water in the same process of leather finishing. This solution will be applicable, with some modifications, to other industrial sectors such as tanning and textiles. The project comprises the treatment of effluents in the leather finishing industry using membrane technology (reverse osmosis), obtaining a water of similar or superior quality to the drinkable water used in the original process (in Chapter 2 the characteristicsof the original water and of the effluent are shown). The concentrate that is obtained from the process will undergo a treatment afterwards either by incineration, by electrochemical oxidation or by using a thermal treatment where a minimal waste (less than 1.5 kg per m3 of treated concentrate is produced) and can be treated as Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), then dumped. The technological objective consists of developing the proposed process and obtaining its patent, in such a way that it can later be commercialized. The economic target is that the cost per cubic metre of treated effluent be less than the cost of the water plus the wastage tax/sewerage (treatment cost <200 ptas/m3). Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolorsengineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalinationreverse osmosisengineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processes Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0204 - Technologies for recovering products at the end of their lifecycle Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CRS - Cooperative research contracts Coordinator Acabados Salinas SA Address 15,quijote 15 03600 Elda Spain See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Acabados Juvipiel SL Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address S/n,camino cementerio s/n 06340 Monovar See on map CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS, MEDIAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address 22,avenida complutense 22 28040 Madrid See on map CENTRO TECHNOLOGICO DO CALCADO Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rua de fundoees - devesa velha 3700 121 S.joao da madeira See on map HELLENIC TANNERIES SA Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Patras industrial zone 25018 Patras See on map Instituto Español del Calzado y Conexas Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Poligono industrial campo alto s/n 03600 Elda See on map Links Website Opens in new window LIMA E RESENDE LDA. Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Zona industrial da arrifana 3701-908 Sao joao da madeira See on map Vasconcelos e Companhia Lda. Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3700 San joän madeira See on map
