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Analysis and Metering of Industrial Waste Waterusing Cloud
Computing
Lingaraju M ITI (EM), ADIT, DHMN, DECE, BE (E&C), AMIT, C.Eng., ( M.Tech (VD&ES))
Dept.of VLSI Design and Embedded Systems
UTL Technologies, VTU Extension Centre, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Abstract: This paper deals about analysis of
waste water affluent from Industries in an economical
way. Industrial wastes generated through various
industrial operations are of different chemical
composition and complex to decompose. These
wastes upon discharge, affect the normal life of a
river stream or normal functioning of sewerage and
sewage treatment plants, unless pre-treated at the
source point itself. The waste water from industries
have high proportion of suspended solids, dissolved
organic and inorganic solids, COD, BOD, alkalinity
or acidityalkalinity or acidity (pH levels), more
temperature level. Their different constituents may
not be in same proportion as they exist in a normal
domestic sewage. This industrial waste water cannot
always be treated easily by the normal methods used
for treating domestic waste and certain specially
designed methods or sequence of methods may be
necessary. The detail study of effluents before
discharge is necessary to reduce pollution and hence
this paper is proposed. Metering also has been
proposed to penalize industries if the waste content is
beyond threshold levels.
As a Case Study the analysis and metering of water is
been carried out randomly by collecting water
samples of Bellandur lake, the most popular lake in
Bengaluru, at different time using sensors and storing
the measured values in a cloud (AWS-Amazon cloud
Server) via GPRS for further use by the Government.
Keywords: pH level, COD, BOD, temperature,
Metering, AWS
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INTRODUCTION
Surface water is being polluted by anthropogenic
activities. The discharge from various industries such
as dairy, cane sugar, brewery, petrochemical, textile,
paper and pulp have been increasing at an alarming
rate making it one of the main sources of severe
pollution worldwide. The important pollutants in all
these waste effluents are chiefly recalcitrant, organics,
colors and toxicants. The waste water possesses a huge
variety of chemicals from the various stages of
operations which include printing, scouring, bleaching
and dyeing. The waste effluent from these units and
industries are discharged in open land, agriculture land
or water bodies causing adverse effects on the flora,
fauna and general health of residents residing around
such sites and villages/cities/towns [1][2].
The quality of wastewater effluents is responsible for
the degradation of the receiving water bodies, such as
lakes, rivers, streams, etc. The potential deleterious
effects of polluted wastewater effluents on the quality
of receiving water bodies are manifold and depend on
volume of the discharge, the chemical and
microbiological concentration/composition of the
effluents. It also depends on type of the discharge,
whether it is the suspended solids or organic matter or
hazardous pollutants like heavy metals and
organochlorines.
There are various Standardized Meters [3] and
Measurements to gauge the pollution levels in water.
They are Water Temperature, pH level, COD and
BOD levels, TOC level etc., helps to estimate the
toxicity of water [2]. By monitoring these parameters
[4] regularly, water pollution can be controlled by
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warning the industries that let go the polluted water
into mainstream.
COD – Stands for Chemical oxygen demand – It is the
total measurement of all the chemicals in water that
can be oxidized. It provides an index to assess the
effect discharged waste water will have on the
receiving environment. Higher COD [4] [5] levels
mean a greater amount of oxidizable organic material
in the sample which will reduce the levels of dissolved
oxygen levels (DO) in water. A reduced DO leads to
anaerobic conditions which is perilous to aquatic life.
COD testing time is shorter compared to that of
BOD.Permissible COD level as per Central Pollution
Control Board (CPCB) is less than 250mg/L.
pH level - [3] [4] It is the potential of Hydrogen that a
liquid is measured for alkalinity or acidity. On a scale
of 1 to 14, with 7 being neutral, acidic water sample
will have values from 6 to 1 and alkaline water sample
varies from 8 to 14. Lesser the pollution level in water
more is its alkalinity.
Temperature Levels–[1] [2]of water levels vary
especially if the water is polluted. Normal water has
temperature around 25-27DegC but if the water is
polluted the temperature crosses 32DegC. So
measuring temperature is one of the methods to access
pollution of water.
Controlling the flow and Metering concepts are
required to alert Industries which keep letting out
polluted water without any concern towards nature.
After analysis of water samples using sensors, there
are various methods to transfer data to server [7] [8]
like ZIgbee for live water monitoring.
IoT Concept–[9][10] is the latest method for updating
sensed values
In this project the analysis of water is done by sensors
like PH sensor, Temperature sensor and COD levels.
Metering is done by water level / flow sensor. The
measured sensor values are uploaded to cloud/server
via GPRS.
1. OBJECTIVES
The aim of the project is to characterize the waste
water of industries and volume of waste water
discharge and study the level of pollutants being
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discharged by these units. The necessity of treatment
of water before its release from industries needs to be
recognized. This is essential to reduce pollution inputs,
particularly toxicants, to restore natural productivity
and to promote sustainable development of the
surroundings as well as regulate the quality of the
effluent released into the environment.
The analysis of water is done by collecting water
sample at random time without prior intimation to
industry. If the values have crossed the pH level ie., if
they are found acidic or if the temperature has crossed
40 Deg C or if the water has crossed prescribed COD
level, the industry or factory is penalized which is by
metering.
Government can then take required action against
industries such as – applying more restrictions on
chemical usage, issue notice or cancel license.
2. IMPLEMENTATION
The Module devised here is Microcontroller-Based in
combination with Wireless Technology using GPRS
and on the latest technology of Amazon Web
Services.
Water sample is collected from the waste water
disposal area of the Industrial areas.
This sample is now to be sensed by the sensors of the
Meter being developed.
Water Temperature testing: Polluted water usually
has more temperature than normal un polluted water.
So testing for its temperature (more than 40Deg)
using a temperature sensor is an indication of
polluted water.
Water pH value testing: Polluted water will be
acidic in nature, hence testing acidity level (greater
than 7) using a pH level sensor is also an indication
of polluted water level.
Water Flow Sensor : Also metering has to be done
to calculate penalty on the polluting factories. For
this, volume of water being let out from the polluting
factories has to be known. The flow sensor along
with metering facility is useful here.
COD Testing : Polluted water will be turbid if
Chemical level is more. Hence using a simple
technique by passing light and measuring its impact
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on a Light sensor like LDR, presence of chemicals in Different samples of water like – normal drinking
water can be checked. water, salt water, foamy water, lime water, muddy
Conductivity Testing : Polluted water has many water are collected for testing.
chemicals which makes increases its conductivity
level. Normal range should be between 100 and 200.
Electrodes of level sensor can be interfaced to ADC
to test these values.
Sensors Data Processing:
The controller needs to process sensors data before
sending data to server.
The processed sensor data by the controller is nothing
but the present condition of polluted water sample
taken.
The microcontroller used is RENESAS RL78 series
with 64 pins and can handle analog and digital data.
This is important because the sensors provide analog
data and to communicate with GSM module digital
data is required.
The Software (Embedded-C coding) is taken care by
the customized RenesasCubeSuite development tool. Fig 1 : Block Diagram
The Microcontroller unit operates under wide
temperature range also.
Cloud Computing: The measured data is transferred
through GPRS - AWS technology.
The data pattern will be coded in a string format and
deciphered at the receiving end while displaying in
the web location.
The Sever thus will have the database of all the water
samples taken.
Fordemonstration - In the Meter being developed,
the sensors like temperature Sensor, pH Sensor,
InfraRed Sensor and Water-Level Sensor will be
interfaced to the Renesas Microcontroller. The water
samples are collected in test tube for COD testing and
the same sample is collected in a bucket for
temperature,pH level and flow meter interface.
A Relay is activated to pump water.
Programming is done for simplified understanding :
Such as if water sample is Acidic pH value is
displayed as 1, if Alkaline pH is 0. Fig 2 : Metering Setup
Sensing Conductivity – If the water has to be
consumed its conductivity level has to be between
100-200 which is sensed using electrodes and ADC .
If IR LED glows bright – then COD level is less.
If IR LED glows dull – then COD level is more.

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Fig 3: GPRS Set up for Cloud Computing

3. FLOWCHART

Fig 4: Flow Chart of Metering

4. OUTCOMES

The result data that is transmitted in the format of

the string is as below for normal cold Water:

$T16P0T002C000U00A000@

T16 – 16Deg
T020 – Less Turbid (less COD level)
pH – 0 – Base
C110 – Less Conductivity
U01 – No of Units
A000 – Amount Charged is NIL for good water.

The LCD display is as below:

Fig 2 : LCD Display

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Other Samples are Analyzed as below:
Lime water Sample
$T34P1T235C240U01A020@
Acidic,More Turbid, COD is more, Temperature
is 34 and Penalty amount 20 is displayed per unit.
Turbid water Sample
$T32P0T378C090U01A010@
Little Alkaline, COD is more, Temperature is 32
and Penalty amount 10 is displayed per unit.
Below are the Displays of AWS login Windows
which can be viewed by Authorized login:
Fig 5 : TCP window and weblogin
CONCLUSION
The proposed New Idea / project isintended for
Analyzing and Metering of untreated waste water
from Industries that have high proportion of
suspended solids dissolved organic and inorganic
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solids, alkalinity or acidity and their different
constituents may not be in same proportion as
they exist in a normal domestic sewage.
Ex. Belandur Lake Effects of toxics waves
frothing at Bangalore. Treatment of effluents
before discharging waste water is necessary to
reduce pollution by analysis and metering of
Industrial waste water is been carried out
randomly by collecting water samples at different
time using sensors and storing the measured
values in a cloud via GPRS for further use by the
government. It was developed by using
Embedded C programming software at VTU
Extension Center, UTL Technologies
Yeshwanthpura in Bangalore.
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