An Effluent Treatment Plant’s Procedure Improved by Employing the Kaizen Approach

¹ Mechanical Engineering Department, Priyadarshini College of Engineering, Nagpur, 440019, Maharashtra, India.
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Priyadarshini J. L. College of Engineering, Nagpur, 440009, Maharashtra, India.

^* Corresponding author: swapnaghatole72@gmail.com

Abstract

Industrial waste management, environmental compliance, and public health depend on ETPs. Though vital, many such institutions fail to operate efficiently and effectively. The study of Kaizen techniques implementation is done in Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) in a SSI unit in Nagpur city, in INDIA. Here, the working of this process is done over Effluent Treatment Plant of the filtration unit in the industry. Here kaizen process is implemented in filtration of sludgy water. To overcome this problem the kaizen process was implemented in the filtration unit. Now in newer process air cylinder is placed in the process. The pump partially fills the air cylinder with sludgy water. The sluggish water is then pumped to the ETP unit. Earlier the process was not manually controlled it totally depended over the pressure of pump which was manually operated. To avoid all the mishaps happening in the industry new process was implemented. After application of kaizen technique all the problems which were a rising during filtration of sludgy water were overcome. Kaizen improves industrial wastewater management by lowering treatment costs and increasing plant capacity. This article describes Kaizen implementation and offers practical suggestions for optimizing wastewater treatment in other facilities.