Deturbidization of Vegetable Oil Refinery Wastewater with Extracted Fish Scale Biomass via Coagulation Process; Non-linear Kinetics Studies

Abstract

Chito-protein was successfully synthesized from fish scale. The ability of a coagulant (chito-protein) prepared from fish scale (FSC) to carry out an effective removal of pollutants from food processing industry (vegetable oil industry wastewater, VOW) was evaluated at bench scale using a simulated jar test analysis. The coagulant was characterized via proximate analysis and instrumental analysis: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The maximum kinetic parameters determined were recorded at K of 2x10-5L/mg.min, 1g, t1∕2= 50 min, R2= 0.9245 and pH of 2.Regression coefficient analysis (R2) was used to ascertain the accuracy of the fit to the postulated kinetic model. However, it was concluded that the second order kinetic model described the reaction most adequately. Removal efficiency of turbidity (87.21%) was obtained at optimum contact time of 30 min, pH 2, coagulant dosage of 1.5g and temperature of 323K. Kinetic study showed that Pseudo first order and pseudo second order models were the best two models in describing the coag-adsorptive kinetics of the coagulant. Similarly, the predicted kinetic data were adjured statistically significant using F- test and T-test.