Date:23/04/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/04/23/stories/2005042301251700.htm

Business

Perundurai CETP signs MoU for common RO plant

M. Soundariya Preetha

Planning to go for a second plant

COIMBATORE: The Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for the textile processing units at the SIPCOT Industrial Growth Centre, Perundurai, signed a memorandum of understanding with Polutech Limited, a Chennai company, on Thursday to design and erect a reverse osmosis (RO) facility.

The processing units segregate the wash water and the dye bath at their premises and the wash water is sent to the treatment plant (CETP).

After treatment it goes to the farm developed by the CETP. When the RO facility, which is a common project for all the 14 processing units at the centre, is commissioned, the units will be able to re-use this water.

The facility is expected to become operational in another five months and Polutech will also maintain and operate it for four or five years.

The Managing Director of the treatment plant, K. Mohamed Ali, said the RO with a capacity to treat one million litres of wash water a day would be erected at a total cost of Rs. 2.50 crores.

For this, the Union Government had granted Rs. 2.39 crores under the Assistance to States for Infrastructure Development for Exports (ASIDE) through the State government.

According to the maintenance and operation agreement, the CETP would pay nearly Rs. 17 per 1,000 litres towards treatment in the RO and the CETP would create facilities for supply of the treated water to the units for reuse.

Most of the processing units connected to the CETP had commenced operations and hence another RO plant with 1.5 mld capacity would be required.

"We will go ahead with the second plant soon depending on the performance of the first one."