KARE maintains separate canals for sewage water, rainwater and drinking water so there is no possibility of mixing polluted water with drinking water in our campus.
Water sustains life on the planet; realizing this, a very systematic and sustainable approach towards cleaning and recycling water has been practiced at KARE for more than a decade now. Using advanced automatic SBR technique, not only the demands on the fresh water has been substantially reduced; rather the generated biomass has been effectively re-used as a source of organic manure for cultivation of various plant species alongside the foothills of the Western ghats. This practice has brought several laurels to the University such as UI Green Metric Award 2020 (2nd position among Indian Universities and 168th among World Universities) and 7th amongst cleanest Higher Educational Institution in the country by Swachh Campus awarded by Government of India, MHRD in 2018. The clean and green practice at KARE, could set an example for other institutions believing and aiming towards sustainable development goals.
To predict the performance and design control system to meet the environmental regulatory standards, the complex non-linear behavior presented in the biological treatment requires an accurate model. Herein by using Artificial intelligence (ANN and GP) the mathematical modelling of biological reactors operating under batch and continuous systems treating TDS,COD and other pollutants were performed. Mathematical modelling of biological systems are complex due to lack of process knowledge and multiple governing factors thereby significantly increasing the research trends using data based driven models.To correlate the biological non-linear relationship and to achieve the minimum error goal for pollutant removal, the ANN and GA were designed. These models analyze and reliably make predictions of complex biological systems helping in controlling and enhancing the performance of the wastewater treatment plant. From these results the better pollutant removal was done by the SBR system when compared to aerobic and anaerobic systems.