Abstract:Environmental pollution is a major concern for leather industry. During leather processing, a large amount of waste is generated and their disposal into water bodies without proper treatment has a detrimental effects on environment. Tannery effluent is composed of several kinds of liquid waste: soak, lime, delime & bate, pickle & chrome. Deliming is one of the important steps in leather processing which is mainly based on ammonium salts. In conventional deliming process, a significant amount of ammonia is rele… Show more
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