Phytoremediation of Pharmaceutical Effluents by using Plants Husks

Abstract

The goal of this research is to filter and characterize the Husk of rice and coconut for the removal of toxic pollutants from Pharmaceutical wastewater. It has been reported that organic waste can adsorb pollutants more efficiently from wastewater as compared to other adsorbents due to their small size, high surface area and high chemical reactivity. Water can be purified by different methods, and different methods have been reported to remove pollutant from water but where adsorption is more efficient due to its properties like cost effective, simple methodology, and rapid operation. Adsorption method for separation is most popular due to easier methodology, requires lesser volume for process, high efficiency, easiness and characteristic of regeneration and produce lower volume of sludge. Before and after samples of husk were confirmed by FTIR and XRD used as adsorbent for removal of contaminants from wastewater. FTIR spectra correlated with peaks of husk from literature. In XRD graph, peaks confirm the formation of husk and antibiotics complex. These composition shows high adsorption and dye degradation in reported Uv-analysis and they can easily separate out from solution after adsorption. Husk showed high adsorption capacity of antibiotics and can remove 80% of antibiotics from water in 30 min.