Development of the methodology for calculating the standards of permissible discharge of liquid industrial wastes taking into account regional peculiarities of water bodies
Section: Methodology and research methods. Models and forecasts
The problem of regulating the discharge of liquid wastes into water bodies is the most urgent task and is carried out on the basis of establishing standards of permissible discharge (SPD). Many authors note that the key problem of setting the SPD is the use of maximum allowable concentrations (MAC) as threshold values, determined without taking into account regional peculiarities of formation of natural water composition and its ability to dilute wastewater. We have proposed the development of the methodology for calculating SPD, based on the condition that ensuring the disposal of liquid wastes at the level of permissible discharge standards will not lead to a change in the water quality class determined using the specific combinatorial index of water pollution (SCIWP). In the previous publication we have substantiated territorial threshold concentrations (TTC) based on the analysis of long-term data sets of hydrochemical observations, which allow us to take into account regional features of the geochemical background of water bodies, including the content of substances of dual genesis. They also implicitly allow taking into account hydrological and hydrochemical factors that ensure the ability of natural waters to dilute liquid waste effluents. The obtained TTCs are proposed to be used for calculation of permissible concentrations of substances in wastewater instead of MAC. SPD is established by cyclic iteration of TTC values by 10%, with parallel calculation of SCIWP, until the index is transferred to another water quality class. This paper presents the results
of approbation of the proposed development of the methodology of SPD calculation for liquid waste from Оpen JSC “Kazan Synthetic Rubber Plant” discharged into the Volga River. The obtained calculation results make more stringent requirements to the value of SPD for substances mainly of anthropogenic origin. For some substances of dual genesis, the value of SPD was higher, which allows us to make more adequate requirements to water users for treatment of sewage effluents.
Keywords: liquid industrial waste, discharge, water bodies, regional peculiarities, threshold concentrations, standards of permissible discharge, calculation
Article published in number 4 for 2023 DOI: 10.25750/1995-4301-2023-4-070-077
ISSN 1995-4301
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