Abstract
The textile industry has been recognized as one of the industries that produces high dischargedrate of wastewater with high volume and composition of contaminants to the environment. Zinc(Zn) is one of the contaminant that commonly found in textile wastewater. An investigation onthe capability of saw dust to remove Zn in the textile wastewater was done. The abundance of sawdust produced from the saw mill will bring adverse effects on the environment. In this study, aninvestigation of Zn removal was carried out by using saw dust fixed bed column. The effect oftypes of sawdust, adsorbent dosage and adsorbent particle size to the Zn removal was studied. Theresults showed that the carbonized sawdust with 15g of adsorbent dosage and 150?m of adsorbentparticle size gives the highest percentage of Zn removal with lowest time taken. This studyindicates that sawdust has the potential to be employed as an adsorbent for Zn removal in textilewastewater.
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