REMOVAL OF NITRATE FROM INDUSTRIAL

WASTEWATER BY USING ORANGE PEEL

Guided By:- Presented By:-

1. ABHINAV KUMAR PADHAN
Mr. Rajiv Lochan Sahu
2. DIBYA RANJAN MEHER
Assistant Professor 3. PRABEER RAJ
4. PRATYUSH KUMAR TRIPATHY
Department of Civil
5. PRAYASH KUMAR NAIK
VSSUT, Burla DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
 TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Objective & Scope of the work
4. Material & Methodology
5. Result and Discussion
6. Conclusion
7. References
 INTRODUCTION

 Water pollution has a major concern for the welfare of mankind. The
source release various heavy metals and salts included nitrates into the
water.

 The main sources of nitrate are from atmosphere, sewage, industrial

effluent, agriculture and runoff.

 Too much  nitrate, in drinking water can be harmful to young infants

or young livestock. Excessive nitrate can result in restriction of oxygen
transport in the bloodstream.

 Hence effective removal of nitrate from aqueous solution using natural

products has been attempted.
 OBJECTIVE OF THE WORK
The objective of the present work is to reduce the
pollutants which are present in industrial waste water
and also to analyze the performance of different
natural and synthetic carriers that can be used as
adsorbent.

SCOPE OF THE WORK

• Preparation of the synthetic industrial wastewater.
• Collection and preparation of the natural adsorbent.
• Study the effect of various physical factors such as
Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT) Initial concentration of the
pollutant and amount of adsorbent.
 
 AUTHOR PARAMETERS RESEARCH WORK
FOCUSED
G. Nitrate, BOD, • The pectin yield obtained by nitric acid extraction of the
enriched material was 320 gm/kg with an euronide content of
Aravantinos- Raw Sewage 86.8% while 42.2% of the material was left as residue.
Zafris, V • The extraction residue contain an appreciable amount of nitrate
47.3 gm/kg. successive extraction with 95% ethanol and water
Oreopoulou. resulted in lowering nitrate conc to 88mg/kg.

Gilbert V. Nitrate, • The activated sludge treatment is performed in

Levin, Chevy Phosphate which the nitrogen content of raw sewage was
removed.
Chase,
• Nitrate depleted sludge is separated to provide a
George J.
substantially nitrate free effluent.
Topol et al.
• The sludge is then recycled for mixing with influent
sewage material.

Wang Yu, Gao Adsorption • In order to reduce the impact of eutrophication by

Bao- Yu et al. isotherm, agricultural residue, we prepare anionic sorbent
Anionic using wheat straw.
solvent, Nitrate, • In alkaline solution about 90% of adsorbed nitrate
RWS, MWS ionic could be desorbed from prepared anionic
sorbent.
 AUTHOR PARAMETERS RESEARCH WORK
FOCUSED

Rajeswari Adsorption, • The effectiveness of orange peel in adsorbing acid

Sivaraj, C. adsorption violet(17) from aqueous solution has been studied
as a function of agitation time, adsorbent dosage,
Namasivayam isotherm,
Initial dye concentration and pH.
et al. Desorption.
• A removal of 87% was obtained at pH 2.0 for an
(2000)
adsorbent dose of 600mg per 50 ml of 10mg/litre
dye concentration.
• The adsorption increases with increase in pH.

• About 48% of nitrate removal has been noticed

M. Vasanthy Nitrate from 10 ppm aqueous nitrate solution after 30
min.
C.Thamaraise
• About 20% removal was found after 120 min.
lvi
• Further, with aqueous nitrate solution, 60% nitrate
removal was noticed after about 90-150minutes
 MATERIALS USED

ORANGE PEEL
 Oven dried at 80°c for 48 hours
 Grounded and passed through 500μ and retained on 120μ
sieve size.

ORANGE PEEL GROUNDED ORANGE

PEEL
 CHEMICAL AND INSTRUMENT

CHEMICALS
POTASSIUM NITRATE(KNO3)
CONC. HYDROCHLORIC ACID (HCl)

INSTRUMENT
UV SPECTROPHOTOMETER
 Methodology
Preparation of Adsorbent.

Preparation of Stock solution.

Plotting of Calibration Curve.

Measurement of Initial Concentration of sample.

Measurement of Final Concentration of sample after

apply of adsorbent
PREPARATION OF CALIBRATION CURVE
For the preparation of calibration curve different concentrations of stock solutions
were analyzed (1ppm, 2ppm, 3ppm, 4ppm, 5ppm, 6ppm, 7ppm) in the
spectrophotometer. The absorbance readings were obtained at 220nm and they are
noted as shown in the table below. Using these values calibration curve was plotted.

Calibration Curve
2.5
2.33
R² = 0.96
2
1.88 1.85

1.64
1.5
Absorbance

1.41

1.15
1
0.88

0.5

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

concentration in mg/l
Individual parametric effect on pollutant removal
considering other parametric constant

Study the effect of various physical factors such as:

1. Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT)

2. Different quantity of adsorbent

3. Effect of Initial Concentration

Result and Discussion

Amount of Initial Final

the Concentration Concentration Percentage
adsorbent in of the sample of the sample removal of
Sl. No. (gm) in mg/l in mg/l Nitrate
1 0.20 7.00 4.8712 30.41

2 0.40 7.00 4.3647 37.65

3 0.60 7.00 4.1286 41.02

4 0.80 7.00 3.5489 49.30

5 1.00 7.00 2.7523 60.68

P e rc e n ta g e R e m o v a l o f N

Percentage Removal of Nitrate

70.00
60.00 60.68
50.00 49.30
40.00 41.02
37.65
30.00 30.41
20.00
10.00
0.00
0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00

Amount of the Adsorbent in gm

CONCLUSION
 From this project it was concluded that orange peels can used as
adsorbent for effective removal of nitrate from industrial wastewater.

 With increase in amount of adsorbent, the efficiency goes on

increasing and reaches the maximum value i.e. 60.68% at the end of
60min of shaking.

 Comparatively, the present study confirms the suitability of

utilization of the powdered peel of orange for the nitrate removal,
which does not pose any health hazard later.

 The range of removal of the nitrate from industrial wastewater is

varies from 30.41 to 60.68%.
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