Experimental Study on Removal of Cod and Colour from Textile Industry Wastewater using Groundnut Shell Adsorbent

Abstract

Abstract Textile Industry waste water contain huge amounts of toxic chemiclas which poses health risks to the aquatic ecology and the local populace when it is dumped directly into surface waters, which also inhibits sunlight from penetrating the water. There is a lot of interest in effective methods for removing very harmful chemical molecules from water. Due to the ease of the procedure and reduced cost compared to other processes, adsorption is a well-established technique for pollutant removal from wastewater. In this work, groundnut shell has been employed as a cost-effective, recyclable, and environmentally friendly adsorbent to cleanse the wastewater from the textile industry. The carbonaceous, fibrous solid agricultural waste known as groundnut shells may be used to create inexpensive adsorbents. The treatment time, pH, adsorbent dose, starting organic load, and temperature were revealed to be factors in the adsorption of the organic contaminants onto groundnut shell. Under controlled experimental settings, an orbital shaker device was used for the batch adsorption treatment. Standard techniques were used to measure the content of hazardous organics (COD and color) present in the waste water before and after the adsorption treatment. According to this study, groundnut shell works well as a cheap adsorbent to remove contaminants from wastewater produced by the textile industry.