Treatment of egg processing industry effluent using chitosan as an adsorbent

Abstract

The objective of this present study is to investigate the efficiency of chitosan as an adsorbent to treat egg processing industry wastewater. Parameters affecting the effluent treatment process such as pH, chitosan dosage, settling time and initial chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration on the reduction percentage of turbidity, COD and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) were studied. Optimum condition was found to be pH of 4, chitosan dosage of 1.1 g L-1 and settling time of 40 min respectively. The maximum reduction percentage of turbidity, COD and BOD were found to be 94 %, 88 % and 83 % respectively. The effective adsorption process was confirmed by FT-IR spectra analysis. The experimental data was analyzed by different isotherm and kinetic models. Langmuir isotherm type I model was satisfactorily described the adsorption mechanism and the rate of COD reduction followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic model. A four factor, three levels Box-Behnken response surface design was employed to develop second order polynomial mathematical models from the experimental data.

Keywords

• egg wastewater
• chitosan
• adsorption
• isotherms
• kinetics
• experimental design