Starch Based Chitin Ternary Blend for the Removal of Contaminants from Textile Wastewater

TM Kumaran, K Sangeetha, T Gom

Abstract

Industries are essential for economic development of any country. Textile industry is one of the most important and rapidly developing industrial sectors. Effluent generated for the textile industry is one of the sources of pollution. The textile effluents were collected from Ranipet area and the collected wastewater is analyzed for the major water quality parameters, such as Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), pH, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Total suspended solid (TSS) and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and metal ions such as Cr, Pb, Zn, Ni etc. starch based chitin ternary blend was prepared for the removal of contaminants from the effluent. Batch adsorption studies were performed under different environmental conditions of pH, adsorbent dose and contact time. The data was fitted with the kinetic models of pseudo first order and pseudo second order.