Pollutants Removal in Batang Labu River Using Zeolite and Saltwater Clam Shell (Parrateps Textiles) In Fabricated Model - Chai, Yen Hau (Nilai: INTI International University, 2019)
B.Eng (Hons) in Civil Engineering January 2019
BCEGI 65
FEQS-Civil 2019
Abundance commercial waste had become a treat to environment by disposing itto landfill. While some of the waste product can use in water treatment such as saltwaterclam shell (SWCS) can be an alternative way for water treatment and bring a significantcost reduction in water treatment process. Saltwater clam shell shall not be an abundantuseless waste but a functional and versatile biomaterial in water treatment due to inchemical compound and physical structure. By repurposing saltwater clam shell asabsorbent could lead to a reduction on the commercial waste. This research enclosed theevaluation of adsorption performance of saltwater clam shell compare with zeolite fortotal nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemicaloxygen demand (COD) and total suspended solids (TSS) in water through calculation ofadsorption capacity and removal percentage of each pollutant. Adsorption isotherm andadsorption kinetic study are performed in this study to evaluate the use of adsorbent onthe adsorption process of pollutants. Besides that, the regeneration ability of SWCS isstudied in this research. The result shown that SWCS able to perform adsorption on TSS,TN, TP, COD and BOD with a maximum reduction of 96.98%,60.82%,94.90%,58.33%and 92.31% respectively. SWCS had a desorption of TP up to 9%, none desorption onTN and zeolite desorbed 57.86% of TN, none desorption on TP. For Pseudo Model BOD(Zeolite), TP (Zeolite), TSS(Zeolite) and TN (SWCS) are best fitted to Pseudo-First-Order model. While COD(Zeolite), TN(Zeolite), BOD(SWCS), BOD(SWCS), COD(SWCS), TP(SWCS) and TSS(SWCS) are best fitted into Pseudo-second-order model.As conclusion, it shown that zeolite is more responsible for adsorption on TN componentbut not TP component. While SWCS are more responsible for adsorbing TP componentbut not TN component
Being a project report submitted to INTI International University as a requirements for Bachelor Of Engineering (Hons) in Civil Engineering January 2019 under the managment and supervision of Faculty of Engineering & Quantity Surveying, INTI International University
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