REMOVAL OF FLOURIDE USING LOW COST TECHNIQUE

Poornima Kamatagi; Tejaswini P. S.; Chandrashekar V. C; Bhavya K

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

REMOVAL OF FLOURIDE USING LOW COST TECHNIQUE

Poornima Kamatagi, Tejaswini P. S. , Chandrashekar V. C, Bhavya K

Abstract :

The present study concentrates on use of low cost materials like sugarcane bagasse and neem leaf as adsorbents to remove fluoride from water. Various batch studies were conducted by varying the adsorbent concentration and contact time to remove fluoride from the prepared synthetic water. It was found during the studies that fluoride removal was maximum for sugarcane bagasse adsorbent with an efficiency of 55.36%, 55.96% and 56.15% where as for neem leaf adsorbent, the maximum fluoride removal efficiency was found to be 40.75%,44.60% and 47.92% for adsorbent dosage of 2 mg/l 5mg/l and 10mg/l respectively. The comparative studies showed that the sugarcane bagasse adsorbent was more effective then neem leaf adsorbent in the removal of fluoride from water.