Vol. 22 No. 4 (2019) Cover Image
Vol. 22 No. 4 (2019)

Published: December 31, 2019

Pages: 329-334

Articles

Experimental Measurement of Rice Husk Effectiveness as an Alternative Adsorbent for Turbidity Reduction in Synthetic Water

Noora Saad Faraj 1 Samara Saad Faraj 2
1 Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, AL-Nahrain University
2 Environmental Science Department, Faculty of Science , University of Zakho , Zakho International Road, Zakho-Duhok, Kurdistan Region – Iraq.
History
  • Received: October 16, 2019
  • Revised: November 17, 2019
  • Accepted: December 11, 2019
  • Available Online: December 20, 2019
DOI

https://doi.org/10.29194/NJES.22040329

Abstract

Providing a clean and high quality drinking water to both rural as well as urban areas is a great challenge by itself, adding to it the large volume requirements of such water at high population areas means a very high cost for such industry because mainly of the cost of expensive commercially available adsorbent used in this process. This led inhabitants of the remote and/or rural areas to use less quality water with all its risks and health challenges. In this study, a locally collected rice husk is tested to be used as an alternative adsorbent to the expensive common commercial ones. Parameters like adsorbent dosage, initial concentration of turbidity, and pH level were tested to investigate their effects on the process. Treatment of synthetic turbid water was done after changing these parameters to measure the effect of each parameter alone and the results showed a set of parameters that can be used to achieve high efficiency of turbidity removal. The study concluded that rice husk can be used as a well cheap alternative adsorbent to reduce the river water turbidity due to its availability and low cost with a decent removal efficiency approaching 95%.

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