COD Reduction in Industrial Wastewater Using Activated Carbon Derived from Wodyetia Bifurcata Fruit

Abstract

Industrial wastewater that being discharge without any prior treatment has become one of the major sources that contributes to pollution in water bodies. Textile industry specifically have great amount of chemicals input which eventually affect the value of acceptable conditions for discharge of industrial effluent especially the chemical oxygen demand (COD) value. Thus, this research was carried out to determine the efficiency of activated carbon prepared from Wodyetia bifurcata fruit or commonly known as foxtail palm fruit to reduce COD value in industrial wastewater. The morphology and funtional group of the prepared activated carbon was done using SEM and FT-IR. The effect of contact time in COD reduction experiments was done at 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 minutes. The results showed that the optimum reduction of COD value in textile industry wastewater is 65.31% at 90 minutes. There for it is proved that activated carbon prepared from Wodyetia bifurcata fruit have a potential to reduce COD value in industrial wastewater.