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Volume 8
International Journal of Waste Resources
ISSN: 2252-5211
Recycling Expo 2018
June 25-26, 2018
June 25-26, 2018 | Berlin, Germany
8
th
World Congress and Expo on Recycling
Treatment of Tannery Effluent by Electrocoagulation
Muhammad Abdul Jalil
and
Sudipto Bosu
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
E
lectrocoagulation (EC) has been studied extensively throughout the world during the last decade for the treatment of
various types of water and wastewater. The optimum treatment times, current densities and initial pH have been reported in
the literature in the range of 5-60 minutes, 10-150 A/m
2
and near neutral pH respectively for mostly high removal efficiencies.
Both operating cost and electricity consumption costs have been indicated to vary between 0.0047-6.74 €/m
3
and 0.002-58.0
kWh/m
3
. As EC has great potential in the field of water and wastewater purification, a study was carried out to determine the
efficiency of EC to treat tannery effluent of Hazaribag, Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total of three raw effluent samples were collected
from Hazaribag area and were treated in the Environmental Engineering Laboratory of BUET. The samples were tested for
color, turbidity, BOD and COD. Stainless steel electrodes were used and batch experiments were conducted with 1.5 L capacity
of the reactor at three different current densities (70, 140 and 210 A/m
2
). For each experimental run, samples were taken out
from the reactor after 20, 40, 80 and 160 minutes flow of current. All these samples were then filtered and analyzed for color,
turbidity, BOD and COD. Analysis of the results showed that the color removal efficiency varied from 48.3% to 98.7% having
the best performance (86.4-98.7% removal efficiency) at the current density of 140 A/m
2
.The turbidity removal efficiency was
found to be in the range of 82.4-99.6% with the best performance (98.9-99.6% removal efficiency) for the current density of 140
A/m
2
. The BOD5 removal efficiency variedfrom 49.6 to 93.3% and the best performance (80.9-93.3% removal efficiency) was
at the current density of 140 A/m
2
. At the same current density, the COD removal efficiency varied within a very narrow range
(76.3-78%) whereas it varied greatly (35-78%) when all the data were considered. The experimental results revealed that the
optimum time and current density were 40 minutes and 140 A/m2 respectively for removal of color, turbidity, BOD and COD
from the tannery effluent, and EC is an efficient process for treating tannery effluent especially for reveal of color and turbidity.
The treated effluent can be recycled for various purposes.
Biography
Md. Abdul Jalil has completed first grade junior scholarship, Education Board scholarship, and BUET merit scholarship. He received his BSc in Civil Engineering in 1986
from BUET. He obtained his MSc in Civil Engineering in 1988 specializing in Environmental Engineering from the same university. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering
in 1993 from Tokyo University, Japan under Asian Development Bank Scholarship. He conducted Postdoctoral Research on Water Management in Loughborough
University, UK under Commonwealth Fellowship during 2005-2006. He was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering of BUET in 1986 just after
his graduation. He was promoted to the post of Assistant Professor in 1989. He became an Associate Professor in 1996. He was appointed as a Professor in 2001. He
has published over 37 papers up to now in international and national journals, proceedings of conferences and seminars. He presented a number of papers in home and
abroad. He has worked a member of different committees of national organizations. He worked in a number of national and international research projects. He also works
as a Consultant and completed over 45 important national development projects.
majalil@ce.buet.ac.bdMuhammad Abdul Jalil et al., Int J Waste Resour 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2252-5211-C1-011