Treatment of Automotive Gas Oil (Ago) - Contaminated Water Using Activated Carbon from Indian Bamboo
Journal Title: International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology - Year 30, Vol 3, Issue 11
Abstract
This study investigated the ability of activated carbon extracted from Nigerian-grown Indian bamboo, to absorb hydrocarbon from automotive gas oil -contaminated water. The water was polluted in the ratio of 3:1 (that is, 3parts of water to 1part of automotive gas oil), and then made to flow through 250μm and 500μm activated carbon in a fixed bed adsorption experimental set-up. The effluent from each size of activated carbon was then analysed. The result showed that the activated carbon’s ability to reduce contaminants was, in part, a function of its pore size. Although, the two pore sizes of the activated carbon were able to achieve almost 100% reduction of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) and total hydrocarbon content (THC), the 250μm pore size could only reduce 67.7% of the hydrocarbon utilizing fungi count, compared to 70.4% by the 500μm size. For the hydrocarbon utilizing bacterial count, the levels of reduction were 68.6% and 73.2% for 250μm and 500μm respectively. On the whole, the activated carbon had great potential for the reduction of contaminants from automotive gas oil contaminated water.
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Fubara-manuel
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