Bioadsorption – To Clean Match Industry Effluent Toxicity

Abstract

This study investigates the possibility of applying an adsorption process using seaweed dry powder natural seaweeds the adsorbents were used to treat real match industry effluent. Bioadsorption is an effective low-cost tool for cleaning polluted environment. In the present study the seedlings of Vigna mungo (L) Hepper were treated with various concentrations of match industry effluent and their impact on the growth, biochemical and enzyme characters were studied. After fourteen days treatment with different concentration of match industry effluent (20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100%) the growth parameter such as,shoot and root lengths, leaf area, fresh weight and dry weight were decreased than the control. Biochemical parameters such as chlorophyll, carotenoids, soluble sugar, protein content and nitrate reductase activity also decreased with the increase in the concentration of cobalt chloride. But the content of free amino acid, proline, phenol and leaf nitrate content were increased with the increase in the concentration of cobalt chloride. The activities of enzyme such as catalase, peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase were found to be increased with the increase in the concentration of match industry effluent. Application of seaweed (Sargassum wightii) in different concentrations (2gm/L, 4gm/L and 6gm/L) on 60% efluent treated plants has shown the stress relieving effect caused by the toxins of match industry effluent. It is good low cost bioadsorbant for match industry effluent pollution.