Design and fabrication of airlift fluidized bioreactor for waste water treatment using Musa paradisiaca fruit peel

Author(s): Kamesh Natarajan, Kannan Koviloor Packiam*

Abstract

Water-related problems are increasingly recognized as one of the most immediate and serious environmental threats. Discharge of untreated sewage water into lakes and oceans causes serious damage to the society. In the present study, Airlift fluidized bioreactor has been designed for treating sewage water by using Musa paradisiaca fruit peel as an adsorbent material and the efficacy of the same was studied. Among the possible techniques for water treatments, the adsorption process by solid adsorbents showed potential as one of the most efficient methods for the treatment and removal of organic contaminants in wastewater treatment. M. paradisiaca fruit peel, a discarded agricultural waste was used as a bio adsorbent through easy and environmental friendly processes. The results showed that M. paradisiaca fruit peel had very high specific surface area and potential functional groups for binding water for the removal of contaminants. This paper analyses the applications of Airlift fluidized bioreactor using M. paradisiaca fruit peel for wastewater treatment. The potential applicability of M. paradisiaca fruit peel based bio adsorbent could be further examined in a small-scale experiment.

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