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Eco-friendly and Cost-effective Use of Rice Straw in the Form of Fixed Bed Column to Remove Water Pollutants

Baljinder Singh*, Vasundhara Thakur, Garima Bhatia, Deepika Verma and Kashmir Singh

Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

*Corresponding Author:
Dr. Baljinder Singh
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology
Panjab University, Chandigarh-160 014, India
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Received Date: July 20, 2016; Accepted Date: October 28, 2016; Published Date: October 31, 2016

Citation: Singh B, Thakur V, Bhatia G, Verma D, Singh K (2016) Eco-friendly and Cost-effective Use of Rice Straw in the Form of Fixed Bed Column to Remove Water Pollutants. J Bioremediat Biodegrad 7:374. doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000374

Copyright: © 2016 Singh B, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

We investigated the removal of three pollutants: methylene blue (MB), phosphorus, and nickel (Ni [II]) from water by using modified rice straw powder (RSP) and fixed-bed column adsorption technique. The experiments were conducted in single and binary solutions to study the effects of initial pollutant concentration and column bed depth on adsorption. It was observed that the maximum adsorption capacity of RSP for MB, phosphorus, and Ni (II) was 21.99, 4.22, and 4 mg/g, respectively. In the MB-phosphorus binary solution, the presence of one pollutant did not affect the adsorption of other pollutants. In the Ni (II)-MB binary solution, exhaustion time significantly decreased for Ni (II) adsorption; however, it increased for MB adsorption. The adsorption mechanism was analysed by using the Adams-Bohart, Thomas, and Yoon and Nelson models for describing the column's dynamic behaviour. The results indicated that the Thomas model was very suitable for RSP column design.

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