Preliminary Adsorption Studies on Textile Industry Waste Water Using Sugarcane Bagasse as an Adsorbant

Abstract

In this present research paper natural adsorbant sugarcane bagasse was used for removal of color from waste effluent of textile industry. The adsorbant prepared was employed for the removal of color at the different doses.  The adsorbant was found to be capable of removing color from wastewater; the color removal capacity for sugarcane bagasse was approximately 88% at normal pH and temperature from the experimental investigations, the maximum color removal from the textile industry wastewater was obtained at an optimum adsorbant dosage of 10g/l of wastewater, with an optimum contact time of 24 hours, at room temperature. This result was higher than the results obtained by different process parameters for various adsorbants. Finally, from the results of adsorption study, it was concluded that adsorbants has the capacity of removing the color from textile industry wastewater especially sugarcane bagasse because of its higher adsorptive capacity. Thus it was found that sugarcane bagasse can be used as an effective adsorbent for removing color and other pollutant parameters such chloride, sulfate, iron, BOD, COD  from textile industry wastewater. As the result of this study transmittance was found to be at the increased level of 88%, absorbance was reduced up to the level of 0.05, the sulfate was reduced from 318.45mg/l to 92 mg/l.