The Earth Pod (Episode-3) ― TADOX: The Wastewater Treatment Technology

In this episode, we discuss TERI's patented wastewater treatment technology called TADOX which expands to TERI Advanced Oxidation technology with Dr Nupur Bahadur, inventor of TADOX, Associate Director, TERI, and Head, NMCG-TERI Centre of Excellence on Water Reuse.

TADOX involves novel approaches which make very less use of chemicals in the overall treatment leading to bare minimum and non-toxic sludge preventing secondary pollution. The secondary treatment involves Photocatalysis as an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP), leading to oxidative degradation and mineralization of targeted pollutants. The TADOX treated colorless and high-quality water going to subsequent RO may prevent bio-fouling of membranes, enhance life span and efficiency of RO systems and reduce overall load on subsequent evaporators like MEE and MVR etc. enabling sustainable and affordable ZLD compliance with 85-90% enhanced water reusability. Further, having small footprint, few hours treatment time and together with resource & energy efficiency, the overall treatment is expected to bring down OPEX by 30-40% than current values.

To know more about TADOX: https://www.teriin.org/policy-brief/teri-advanced-oxidation-technology-tadox-treat-textile-and-dyeing-wastewater-achieve