Water pollution is major problem for industries like tannery and textile, because they discharge large amount of wastewater. Adsorption based water treatment plant is a first choice for industrial application. This book describes the different steps for developing an adsorption based wastewater treatment process. Removal of hexavalent chromium from tannery effluent and reactive dyes from textile effluent has been described in this book. This book also elucidates the method of optimization using response surface methodology. A software MINITAB was used for this purpose. Construction and...

Optimization is used to determine the most appropriate value of variables under given conditions. The primary focus of using optimisation techniques is to measure the maximum or minimum value of a function depending on the circumstances. This book discusses problem formulation and problem solving with the help of algorithms such as secant method, quasi-Newton method, linear programming and dynamic programming. It also explains important chemical processes such as fluid flow systems, heat exchangers, chemical reactors and distillation systems using solved examples. The book begins by...