12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow - Earth Science India
12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow - Earth Science India
12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow - Earth Science India
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National Conference on <strong>Science</strong> of Climate Change and <strong>Earth</strong>’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’<br />
<strong>12</strong>-<strong>14</strong> <strong>September</strong>, <strong>2011</strong>, <strong>Lucknow</strong><br />
RECYCLING OF AGRICULTURAL SOLID WASTES FOR<br />
THE REMOVAL OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC<br />
POLLUTANTS FROM WASTE WATERS BY<br />
ADSORPTION PROCESS<br />
Chinnaiya Namasivayam<br />
Faculty of <strong>Science</strong> & Chairman, Department of Environmental <strong>Science</strong>s,<br />
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641 046<br />
email: cnamasivayam@yahoo.com<br />
Industrial growth and associated technical sophistication in the last three decades<br />
or so has posed major problems of solid waste disposal. It has become essential either to<br />
find suitable ways for the safe disposal of the wastes or to suggest novel uses,<br />
considering them as by-products. Otherwise these will remain an accumulated waste,<br />
contributing highly to environmental pollution. The choice between recovery of<br />
valuable materials from waste and disposal of waste depends mainly on three factors:<br />
technology, economics and attitude.<br />
In developing countries like <strong>India</strong>, industries cannot afford to use conventional<br />
wastewater treatment chemicals like alum, ferric chloride, polymer flocculants and coal<br />
based activated carbon because they are not cost-effective. Among the treatment<br />
methods adsorption seems to be an effective method. An inexpensive and more easily<br />
available adsorbent would make the removal of pollutants an economically viable<br />
alternative. Agricultural wastes like orange peel, banana pith, coir pith, peanut hull etc.<br />
are discarded in the agricultural sector. These wastes contain cellulose and lignin, which<br />
act as very good adsorbents. Namasivayam and coworkers have investigated to recycle<br />
these agricultural solid wastes as adsorbents with and without chemical modification for<br />
the treatment of industrial effluents. Physically and chemically activated carbons<br />
derived from coir pith, peanut hull and Jatropha husk; and wastes such as biogas<br />
residual slurry, banana pith and orange peel were found to be efficient for the removal<br />
of dyes, toxic metal ions and anions from industrial wastewaters. Results of batch mode<br />
adsorption studies using the above adsorbents and applications to the treatment of real<br />
industry effluents will be presented in this lecture. Kinetics and temperature effects of<br />
adsorption will be discussed.<br />
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