Open AccessThe development of wastewater coagulant derived from Artocarpus heterophyllus
Author(s) -
Hidayatul Aini Zakaria,
Wan Salida Wan Mansor,
N S Zahari
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/476/1/012100
Subject(s) - artocarpus , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , scanning electron microscope , chemistry , nuclear chemistry , adsorption , wastewater , bet theory , turbidity , specific surface area , pulp and paper industry , materials science , chemical engineering , botany , organic chemistry , environmental engineering , composite material , environmental science , geology , catalysis , oceanography , biology , engineering
Conventional method of wastewater treatment may include the usage of inorganic coagulants which may cause significant environmental effects. This research was carried out to focus on development of coagulant derived from Artocarpus heterophyllus as wastewater treatment agent. In this research, the coagulant derived from Artocarpus heterophyllus seeds and peels was produced by chemical activation process. Samples were prepared in the form of powder at 90 micromillimeter pore size and sulphuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) with concentration of 0.6M was used as activation agent and the activation temperature was set at 400°C for two hours. The coagulant samples were prepared by dissolving the seeds and peels of Artocarpus heterophyllus with H 2 SO 4 at 1:8 (w/v) ratios then 0.1g of each sample was tested against 10ml of synthetic kaolin wastewater. The physical and chemical characterization of the sample was done by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET) while the adsorbent effectiveness were tested using turbidity meter. FTIR results showed that the functional group in the samples corresponds well with existing literatures. XRD analysis has found that the samples were amorphous in structure. The BET surface area of Artocarpus heterophyllus coagulant seeds and peels is 216.8152 m 2 /g and 281.0723 m 2 /g respectively proved that the surface area of both samples become larger after heated which signifies larger surface area and pore diameter of the adsorbent. Result obtained through turbidity meters found that 11% (w/v) Artocarpus heterophyllus seeds coagulant showed 59.69% in turbidity removal while 14% (w/v) Artocarpus heterophyllus peels coagulant showed 76.88% in turbidity removal. This study had confirmed the efficacy of Artocarpus heterophyllus as coagulant up to an acceptable degree, however further study are needed to guarantee better percentage in turbidity removal.