Abstract: The Textile industries pose a significant environmental difficulty because of their huge water consumption. The discharge of colored wastewater represents a severe environmental and community health problem. The present study involves the Photocatalytic decolorization of industrial wastewater by employing newly synthesizes heterogeneous photocatalyst under laboratory condition. An experimental trial has been made to study the effect of parameters viz., amount of catalyst, pH, and irradiation time of photo catalytic degradation of wastewater. The experiment was carried out by irradiating the textile wastewater containing photocatalyst inside the batch reactor having UV light. The rate of decolorization was estimated by spectrophotometrically. Similar experiments were carried out by varying pH (2–12), the amount of catalyst (0.2–1.5 gm) time variation (5-30) minutes). The experimental results show that, the maximum color removal of wastewater (more than 95) occurred at pH 7-11 using newly synthesized catalyst. Catalyst play excellent role for the degradation of dyes from the wastewater and the performance of catalyst in the UV Batch Reactor was excellent throughout the experiment.
Keywords: Textile Wastewater, decolourisation, photocatalyst, UV light.
Title: Photocatalytic Degradation of the Industrial Wastewater using a Newly Synthesized Catalyst
Author: S K Jungle, D B Patil
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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