• MAYURI B JAIN
• Dr. SAVAN TANK

Dairy industries are one of the most common and essential sectors in the world. India is the highest milk producer and ranks first position in the world contributing twenty-four percent of global milk production in the year 2021-22. Dairy industry is considered as largest source of food processing wastewater in many countries. So there is need for developing low cost technique for dairy wastewater treatment. One of the natural methods to treat this kind of wastewater is Reed Bed System. Reed bed is an engineered and managed systems, are progressively receiving worldwide attention for domestic and industrial wastewater treatment. The main objective of this study to monitor the performance of a reed bed system by reducing biochemical oxygen demand(BOD), chemical oxygen demand(COD), total suspended solids, total dissolved solids and pH . From the experimental study, it was found that the Reed Bed Technology gives a better quality of treated effluent with considerable reduction in biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD). Reeds show an important role in removing organic matter from hybrid reed bed system. It is also found that by increasing in the retention period of the wastewater, the removal rate also increases.

Vertical Reed bed, Dairy industry, Root zone, Wastewater.

"TREATMENT OF DAIRY INDUSTRY WASTEWATER USING REED BED TECHNOLOGY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.k1-k5, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305A01.pdf

"TREATMENT OF DAIRY INDUSTRY WASTEWATER USING REED BED TECHNOLOGY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppk1-k5, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305A01.pdf