Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd Chavara, Kollam is located at 80 59’69.8”N latitude and 7 0 00’19.17”E longitude, is an integrated Titanium Dioxide manufacturing public sector undertaking at Kollam, Kerala, India. Its operations comprise mining, mineral separation, and pigment-production plants. It was reported that ground water and surface water around the study area was affected due to the effluents from the industry. Total 10 open well samples were collected covering a distance of 2.5 km in two directions. Then the main physiochemical analysis of the parameters like, conductivity, turbidity, pH, TDS, iron, nitrate, sulphate, hardness etc. were done and found that the samples collected from places near KMML are polluted. A composite media filter prototype was made using cashew-nut shell & coconut shell activated carbon, gravel, coarse and fine sand and geotextiles for filtration purpose .The filtered water was again tested and concluded that the parameters like TDS, chloride content and hardness were reduced considerably within the permissible limit.