TYPES OF

AIR WATER SOLID TREATMENT

INDUSTRY PROCESS HAZARDOUS
POLLUTION POLLUTION WASTE TECHNOLOGY
WASTE
1.Filter rinse water for
reuse in process.

2.Reuse suspended solids as

ingredients in organic
fertilizer.

suspended inorganic 3.Treat wastewaters in a

high volume of
SOAKING ---- solids, chemical wastewater treatment unit
wastewater
trimmings wastes regulator by the Clean
Water Act.

4.Collect hazardous waste

and ship using a
Leather registered hazardous
Manufacturing waste transporter to a
hazardous waste TSDF.
1. Reuse secondary washes
in the soaking process

alkaline 2. Settle out suspended

HAIR wastewater, solids for incorporation
REMOVAL, ammonium inorganic into fertilizer
suspended
DELIMING, ---- sulfate, calcium chemical
solids
AND hydroxide, wastes 3. Destroy sulfides in the
BATING hydrogen sulfide, lime-sulfide solution and
and toxic sulfides washes by air oxidation
with a manganese sulfate
catalyst
 4. After sulfide destruction,
use the lime wastewaters
to neutralize acid washes

5. Collect hazardous water

and ship it using a
registered hazardous
waste transporter to a
hazardous waste TSDF

6.Treat wastewaters in a
wastewater treatment unit
regulated by the Clean
Water Act
1. Reuse spent chromium as
ingredient in pickle
solution

2. Reprocess spent
chromium for reuse in
tanning process

chromium, acid inorganic 3. Neutralize acid

TANNING and alkaline ---- chemical wastewaters with
salts, and acids wastes liming/unhairing/deliming
liquors which have first
been aerated to treat
sulfide

4. Treat wastewaters in a
wastewater treatment unit
regulated by the Clean
Water Act
 1. Reclaim solvents in an
onsite distillation unit
and reuse on site

chromium, 2. Reclaim and reuse

RETANNING,
kerosene, solvent retanning solutions
DYEING, solvent and
still bottoms, ----
AND FAT dye overspray
toluene, and 3. Collect hazardous waste
LIQUORING
toxic dyes and ship using a
registered transporter to a
hazardous waste TSDF
for treatment and
disposal
alcohols
(methanol,
ethanol,
propanol,
1. Capture, recover, and
butanol,
reuse solvent
diacetone
alcohol), esters
2. Use trimmings and
(ethyl, propyl,
leather dust from buffing
solvent and butyl inorganic
to make reconstituted
BUFFING overspray and acetates), glycol chromium chemical
leather
AND volatile ethers in leather wastes and
COATING organic air (butoxyethanol dust organic
3. Collect hazardous waste
emissions and solvents
and ship using a
propoxyethanol),
registered transporter to a
ketones (methyl
hazardous waste TSDF
isobutyl ketone,
for treatment and
acetone,
disposal
cyclohexanone,
di-isobutyl
ketone), methyl
ethyl ketone,
 solvent still
bottoms, toluene,
and xylene
inorganic 1. Collect hazardous waste
chromium,
chemical and ship using a
kerosene, methyl
PRODUCT wastes, organic registered transporter to a
---- ethyl ketone, ----
STORAGE solvents, and hazardous waste TSDF
trichloroethylene,
organic for treatment and
and toluene
chemicals disposal.
 BRINE CURD HIDES
INPUTS WASTEWATER SOLID WASTE
water, wetting agents TRIMMING AND salt, dirt, blood trimmings
(enzymes) SOAKING

---- FLESHING ---- fleshing

water, lime, Na2S, enzymes DEHAIRING dissolved hair, sulfide lime trimmings

water, (NH4)2SO4, enzymes BATING hide constituents ----

water, NaCl, H2SO4 PICKLING ---- ----

basic chromium sulfate, TANNING ----

non-exhausted chromium, salts
NaHCO3

SPLITTING AND
---- ---- splits, shavings
SHAVING

RETAINING AND FAT

different chemicals non-exhausted chromium, salts ----
LIQUORING

CRUST LEATHER

Process Flowchart for LEATHER MANUFACTURING

CEBU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – UNIVERSITY
N. Bacalso Avenue, Cebu City, Cebu

ASSIGNMENT IN ChE 518 – V1

Industrial Waste Management and Control

Submitted by:
JUHLIAN V. SANTOS

Submitted to:
ENGR. ROSARIO G. DANGIN