Wastewater Treatment Using Banana Pith Powder

Abstract

Water is one of the major considerations for economic improvement globally as it is extensively utilized in various productive zones which includes agricultural products, industry, and urban supply. The rapid-paced industrial development, financial growth, and inhabitant’s growth in emerging countries have involved in unexpected requirement of water in towns. Over the last few times, the quantity of water used and production of wastewater in household segments has risen extremely. There is a lot of existing methods used for the treatment of wastewater, usually, coagulation and flocculation are the process that is widely used. This treatment process is usually being put into practice because it is cost-efficient, consistent, simple, and considered as minimal energy using methods. The recognized physical-biochemical method eliminates suspended, soluble particles and colloidal, cost-effectively by encouraging the removal of large-scale and small by sedimentation. Several types of coagulants are used in the traditional treatment process, with varying chemical dosages depends on impurities present in wastewater. Ferric chloride, alum, calcium carbonate comes under organic polymer and inorganic polymer coagulants, also poly aluminum chloride is commonly utilized for the treatment of wastewater. But this treatment also causes severe disposal challenges due to sludge accumulated following the treatment utilizing aluminium salts to run the risk of accumulation in the ecosystem. Along with these synthetic organic polymers such as acrylamide have carcinogenic and neurotoxic impacts. The unconventional solution to these challenges is the alternative of metal and synthetic coagulants with natural coagulants which are an additional ecological approach