Final Year B.

Tech Project Entitled

REMOVAL OF ORGANIC MATTER IN

DOMESTIC WASTE WATER USING WHITE
WOODCHIP FILTER

Under Guidance Of:

Dr. V. B. Varekar

Presented by:
Gunwant Shelar (141010002)
Kedar Shelke (141010037)
Neel Chikhlikar (151010968)
Akshay Gadade (151010977)
Contents
Introduction
LiteratureReview
Materials and methods
Result and discussion
Conclusions

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Introduction Pollution of surface
water sources due to
1% fresh water domestic sewage :
available 75%
Use of fresh water % Population having
access to sewage
disposal system:
WATER CONSUMPTION <50%
12%
IRRIGATION
7% 30% THERMAL
DOMESTIC
INDUSTRIAL

50%
(Source A. K. De, 2002)3
Need of study
 Sewage contains large amount of TDS, organic matter
and nutrients.
 Increased load on domestic wastewater treatment plant
 To propose a low cost treatment technology for domestic
wastewater using wooden waste material

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 Literature Review
Researcher Research Attempt
Yong Z, Lie Z (2015) Removal of organic pollutants from aqueous solution
using agricultural waste.
Huai Li, Zifang C An innovative woodchip framework substrate used as
(2016) slow release carbon source to treat high strength
nitrogen waste water.
Lide C, Steven H Two stage woodchip base bio filter system to mitigate
(2012) odour from a deep
-pit swine building
Piet L, Piet V (2003) Direct treatment of domestic waste water by percolation
over peat, bark and wood chips
Laura C, Christine Denitrifying bioreactor clogging potential during waste
L(2016) water.
Choudhuri (2016) Suspended sediment and phosphorus removal in
woodchip filter

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Scope of study

Use of Whitewood chips as a bio-absorbent

Low cost treatment of domestic wastewater
by using whitewood chips

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Objective of study

To study physio-chemical characteristics

of wastewater at VJTI boys hostel
To remove dissolved organic matter using
Whitewood chip filter and check its
efficiency for varying detention periods.

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 Sampling
Done with the objective of collecting a
representative sample
Basically depends on types of sample and
sampling method
Type of sample used: Grab sample
Method of Sampling: Manual Sampling

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Source of Wastewater
B block hostel, VJTI

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Methodology

Domestic
Treated
Waste Water
Primary Treatment Effluent Filtration with Water
(settling for 1hr) white woodchips

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Methodology (Design and general
setup)

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Experimental Procedure
 Domestic Wastewater Settled For 1Hr.
 Part of the sample obtained is tested for BOD, COD, and
TDS
 Remaining part is passed through the filter media
 Detention time-30 min, 90 min, 180 min

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 Materials used
SAND GRAVEL

WHITE WOOD CHIPS

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 Results
Results were obtained for
BOD,COD,TDS
Graphs were plotted between values
obtained from the results vs varying
retention time

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 Removal of COD

Retention time Influent Effluent % Decrease in

(minutes) (mg/L) (mg/L) COD

30 635.616 490.212 25

90 624.96 416.64 34

180 662.1 296.712 55

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 Results (Contd.)
700

600

500
COD in mg/L

400

300

200

100

0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200

Retention time in minutes

effluent influent
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 Removal of BOD

Retention time Influent Effluent % Decrease in

(minutes) (mg/L) (mg/L) BOD

30 284 235.29 16.5

90 300 229 24

180 317.64 211.76 33.33

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 Results (Contd.)
350

300

250
BOD in mg/L

200

150

100

50

0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
Retention time in minutes
effluent influent

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 Removal of TDS

Retention time Influent Effluent % Decrease in

(minutes) (mg/L) (mg/L) TDS

30 280 220 21.43

90 140 100 28.57

180 300 100 66.67

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 Results (Contd.)
350

300

250
TDS in mg/L

200

150

100

50

0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200

Retention time in minutes

effluent influent
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 Mechanism of woodchip filtration
process
The bio-absorptive properties of the wood
chip help in dealing with the organic
fraction
The pores and voids in the wood chip
help in dealing with the dissolved
materials in sample

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 Conclusions
Efficiency of white wood chip as a bio-
absorbent was determined
Greater the retention time, greater will be
the efficiency of wood chip filter .

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Acknowledgement
To our guide DR. V. B. Varekar
To all teaching and non teaching staff of
VJTI civil and environmental department

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Thank You….!

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