Manuscript Title:

CULTIVATION AND UTILIZATION OF BLUE GREEN ALGAE FOR TREATMENT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY EFFLUENT AS A SUSTAINABLE AND ECO-FRIENDLY APPROACH

Author:

NUDRAT GHULAM RASOOL, MONEEZA ABBAS, SHABNUM SHAHEEN, FAKHRA ASLAM, SAIMA ATIF, SUMAIRA AMEEN

DOI Number:

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.12204762

Published : 2024-06-23

About the author(s)

1. NUDRAT GHULAM RASOOL - Department of Environmental Science, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.
2. MONEEZA ABBAS - Department of Environmental Science, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.
3. SHABNUM SHAHEEN - Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.
4. FAKHRA ASLAM - Department of Environmental Science, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.
5. SAIMA ATIF - Department of Environmental Science, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.
6. SUMAIRA AMEEN - Department of Environmental Science, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.

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Abstract

In current times Water pollution is considered to be dangerous because it is indirectly disturbing the ecosystem by polluting water bodies. Hence it is necessary to resolve this issue by controlling it on source or by treating it through treatment processes such as chemical treatment and biological treatment. Industries are of various categories from which some are major polluting industries such as textile. A valuable work done on laboratory level by growing algal species (blue green algae) on textile effluent after characterization of effluent samples. For this characterization of effluents was done for various physiochemical parameters and isolation of algal species was done and algal species was introduced in experimentation through adsorption method and biomass was produced by remediating the textile effluent samples. Blue green algae was considered to be good absorbent of pollutants such as trace metals by analyzing under Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). Results of the study revealed that BGA can be a good absorbent of trace metals for industrial effluent treatment on large scale and considered to be a cost-effective and sustainable bioremediation technique.


Keywords

Effluent Treatment; Physiochemical Parameters; X-Ray Diffraction; Fourier Transform Infrared; Eco-Friendly.