Physico-chemical controlled investigation of coagulation efficiency of Moringa oleifera

Abstract

High population growth rate and small per capital investment are among major challenges facing water sector. To optimize the quench by supplementing with reasonable quality water, water treatment is inevitable. During the course of this study amount of turbidity and pH of water as Moringa oleifera (MO) performance indicators upon water treatment individually were investigated against Electrical Conductivity, salinity, Total Dissolved Solids, total hardness and copper content. By using fixed 200 mg/L of MO it was revealed at low turbidity that MO significantly reduced the amounts of pH, EC, TDS, Total hardness and Cu. Variations of pH against turbidity, conductivity, hardness and TDS revealed a significant performance of MO between 6.3 to 8.7 pH range. Meanwhile copper was highly reduced at a pH value of 4.71, variations of turbidity and pH had no substantial effects on salinity reduction. Turbidity variations had uniform trends while pH variations did not have prospective uniformity. These findings depicted obvious possibilities of local communities using cheap available MO seeds for water treatment instead of expensive chemicals, leading into reduction and elimination of waterborne diseases.