Investigation of Juice Extract from Waste Banana Stems as a Renewable and Sustainable Biocoagulant for Wastewater Treatment

Authors

Waliu Abdulrasheed¹ , Abass Alade¹ , Mujeeb Olarinde¹ , Abdulganiy Yusuf¹

1. LAUTECH

Conference / event

LAUTECH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DISCOVERY, April 2024 (LIRIDE, Nigeria)

Poster summary

Wastewater treatment is a process that removes contaminants from wastewater before it is discharged into the environment. The use of chemical Coagulant in wastewater treatment has adverse effects such as high cost, toxicity, and secondary byproduct formation, leading to the need for alternative environmentally friendly and cost-effective biocoagulants. Kaolinite clay was obtained from the BWERG laboratory. LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, and was used as the test material. After-harvest plantain and banana stems were collected. The pith of the stems was carefully obtained and cut into small pieces, then 100 g of the pith was mixed with 10 ml of distilled water and blended and press-filtered to obtain the Biocoagulant. The Turbidity decreases from 250.6NTU to 87.4 NTU and the Removal efficiency of the biocoagulant is 65%. This innovation is very useful in treating wastewater that can be reused for cleaning, wetting fields and safe discharge into the environment.

Keywords

Coagulation, Water treatment, Biocoagulant, Waste Banana stem

Research areas

Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Agriculture, Plant Sciences

References

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Funding

1. NASENI

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No competing interests were disclosed.

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Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

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