Eletrofloculação aplicada ao tratamento de efluentes têxteis: revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

This work had as thematic the Electroflotation technique that appears as alternative to the conventional system of effluents treatment, in special, the effluents from the textile industry that uses chemical coagulants to remove the organic load, color, turbidity, among others that usually remain in the effluents from the textile industry, mainly caused by dyes used for tinting in textile articles. The mainly gain with this technique is the fact of not to use chemical agents related to the causes of serious diseases as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer and, moreover, it also removes toxic metals from the effluent. A revision has been accomplished about the technique and the principles of the Electroflotation and some researches that applied this technique in the treatment of textile effluents and reached equals or better results than the conventional treatment. The textile industry has been addressed by being very present in the northwest of Paraná, counting on great producers cities as Maringá and Cianorte.