Eco Friendly Bio - Electrochemical Treatment methods for Removing Toxic Organic Pollutants from Pharmaceutical Wate Water

Shahul Hammed M¹, Janadhanan G²

¹Research Scholar, ²Associate Professor, National Institute of Technical Teacher Training and Research, Chennai, India.

Abstract

Persistent Organic pollutants getting accommodated in nearby aquatic environment of which Pharmaceutical origin from unused medicines or pharmaceutical industries or clinics are common. Although nature has strength to digest these Non-degradable Organic pollutants, an indepth study developing as a technology or processes is the need of the day. As such it is proposed in current work to investigate the feasibility for application of electrochemical methods supported by microbial methods so that the efficiency is improvised and also the cost of treatment is reduced considerably. Electrochemical methods involve Electro-coagulation techniques modified and conditions with respect to physical, chemical and electrochemical environment is optimised. Target pollutants are pure hydrophilic pollutants antibiotics, other pharmaceuticals followed by pharma effluents. This phase of work is essential to streamline procedures for maximum removal. Second part of work is microbial methods ie utilization of common microbes for degradation of electrochemically treated pollutants/ effluents. Optimization of conditions with respect to nutrient quality and quantity, seed culture etc. Sustainable microbes that get adjusted to the effluents will be selected for post electrochemical methods. In next phase of work, we propose to utilize developed methods for pharmaceutical effluents (Synthetic and real). The removal of these pollutants will be analysed in terms of COD, individual chemicals, using Uv-Vis/fluorescent spectrophotometer, TOC on regular basis. The date will be validated taking the help of other instruments like FT-IR, NMR, EPR, HPLC, GC/LS-MS etc. Microbial culturing, utilization of the methods will be carried out using standard methods.

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Shahul Hammed M, Janadhanan G. Eco Friendly Bio - Electrochemical Treatment methods for Removing Toxic Organic Pollutants from Pharmaceutical Wate Water. International Conference on Global Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development (2019): 71. Print.