Original Research Article
Year: 2016 | Month: January-March | Volume: 1 | Issue: 01 | Pages: 18-21
Acetic
Acid Adsorption on Rice Husk Adsorbent
Sunil
J. Kulkarni, Mrunmai Joshi, Nikita More
Datta
Meghe College of Engineering, Airoli, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Corresponding Author: Sunil J. Kulkarni
ABSTRACT
Low
cost treatment of the wastewater is the need of the hour. Wastewater treatment
can be carried out by various chemical, physical and biological methods. Water
treatment technologies in the developing world typically focus on removing
various types of impurities from waste water such as suspended solids,
microbial pathogens, inorganic and organic components. Adsorption by using low
cost adsorption is widely studies treatment method. Activated carbon has the
capacity to remove these problematic chemicals from waste water. A simple,
inexpensive and effective activated carbon production process use local
agriculture waste. Acetic acid is present in the effluent from petroleum, fine
chemical, pharmaceutical and textile industry. The present research is carried
out to remove acetic acid from synthetic effluent using adsorbent prepared from
rice husk.
Key words: Adsorption, activation, percentage removal, activated carbon.