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Abstract
The rapid industrialization and urbanization have led to a significant increase in wastewater generation, posing a threat to environmental and human health. Conventional wastewater treatment methods are often expensive, energy-intensive, and chemical-dependent. This study explores an innovative, eco-friendly, and cost-effective approach using banana pith powder and moringa seed powder for wastewater treatment. The main requirement of coagulants like banana pith powder and moringa seed powder is to be able to purify and treat wastewater efficiently. From ancient times seeds, leaves, roots, barks, fruit peels and vegetable peels obtained from the plant has been used for the purification process. Natural coagulants show numerous advantages which consist of a decrease in accumulation of sludge, lesser cost, control differences in the pH of purified water, nontoxic and environment friendly. Scholars used various coagulants that have been studied comprises okra (ladys finger), nirmali plant, moringa oleifera, banana pith juice, tamarind powder has also performed investigational analysis on performing of these various coagulants in purifying water. Banana plants can be extensively analyzed and used as adsorbents to eliminate different contaminants. Banana fruit is consumed highly and creates roughly 40% of the total weight of the fresh fruit and one of the key wastes produced in enormous quantities is banana peel. Banana skin is abundant in organic complexes such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin elements, chlorophyll pigments, and other complexes of small molecular weight. Various experimental works carried out show that banana peels are great traces of galacturonic acid, pectin (10-21 %), lignin (6-12 %), cellulose (7.6- 9.6 %), and hemicelluloses (6.4-9.4 %). This paper focuses on reviews on the research work carried on analysing effectiveness of banana pith powder and moringa seed powder in coagulation process using jar test and on physicochemical properties of wastewater and to investigate suitable filtration system to make the water useful for domestic purposes.
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Copyright © 2024 Mahesh Balasaheb Chougule. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
