Publication: Application Of Activated Carbon In Removing Pollutant From Polluated Water
Date
2020-02
Authors
Mohammed Gamil Abduljalil Sallam
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Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and groundwater. Such an environmental degradation occurs when pollutants are directly or indirectly discharged into water bodies without proper and/or adequate treatment to remove harmful chemicals and compounds. The process of water treatment is crucial process that needs to be done effectively and efficiently, in this research the water treatment was carried out using powder activated carbon as a part of a plastic water bottle
filter. Filtration was conducted over four batches, where the ratio of activated carbon was
varied 50g ,100g ,150g and 200g with the contact time constant at each batch, and each
batch having a different contact time from the range of 10 min to 60 min. These range of
conditions where used in order to study the effect of contact time and ratio on the removal
parameters such as turbidity, total solid, pH and colour. All batches were carried out at
room temperature of 25Co and utilized river water from the same source. The utilization
of activated carbon as a filter material was found to be very effective in the reduction of
turbidity, where the maximum reduction achievement was at the highest weight of 200g
AC was 1.2 NTU. For total solid content, the most effective in the treatment happened at
20 min batch, the reduction percentage is 98%. The colour of treated water shows huge
improvement compared to the pre-filtered water but no improvement in regards to odour.
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FYP Sem 2 2019/2020
Keywords
Water Pollution , Activated Carbon , Filtration For Lake And River