Open AccessCOD Reduction in Industrial Wastewater Using Activated Carbon Derived from Wodyetia Bifurcata Fruit
Author(s) -
Noor Syuhadah Subki,
Najiehah Mohd Akhir,
Nurul Syazana Abdul Halim,
Nik Raihan Nik Yusoff
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/549/1/012066
Subject(s) - wastewater , chemical oxygen demand , pulp and paper industry , industrial wastewater treatment , activated carbon , textile industry , effluent , carbon fibers , chemistry , environmental science , waste management , environmental engineering , mathematics , adsorption , engineering , organic chemistry , archaeology , algorithm , composite number , history
Industrial wastewater that being discharge without any prior treatment has become one of the major sources that contributes to pollution in water bodies. Textile industry specifically have great amount of chemicals input which eventually affect the value of acceptable conditions for discharge of industrial effluent especially the chemical oxygen demand (COD) value. Thus, this research was carried out to determine the efficiency of activated carbon prepared from Wodyetia bifurcata fruit or commonly known as foxtail palm fruit to reduce COD value in industrial wastewater. The morphology and funtional group of the prepared activated carbon was done using SEM and FT-IR. The effect of contact time in COD reduction experiments was done at 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 minutes. The results showed that the optimum reduction of COD value in textile industry wastewater is 65.31% at 90 minutes. There for it is proved that activated carbon prepared from Wodyetia bifurcata fruit have a potential to reduce COD value in industrial wastewater.