Cytotoxicity reduction of wastewater treated by advanced oxidation process

Munawar Iqbal, Muhammad Z. Ahmad, Ijaz A. Bhatti, Khizar Qureshi and Aamera Khan

Abstract

The degradation of printing dyes from textile printing industry effluents was carried out by Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) in which heterogeneous photocatalytic treatment of textile printing wastewater using UV/H2O2/TiO2 system was studied. For the treatment of textile effluents different concentration of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and effect of application time of UV radiation was investigated. The degradation of treated wastewater was estimated spectrophotometrically. To check the extent of mineralization and decolorization after treatment water quality parameter such as percentage degradation, COD, BOD, TOC, pH, DO and toxicity were studied. Before treatment the values of water quality parameters were as; COD (1950 mg/L), BOD (963 mg/L), TOC (3410 mg/L), pH (9.6) and DO (1.77 mg/L). After application of UV/H2O2/TiO2 degradation was observed to be 72% and reduction in COD, BOD, TOC were 58%, 57%, 48%, and increase in DO level was up to 49% respectively. For the evaluation of the toxicity of photocatalyticaly treated wastewater, Allium cepa and brine shrimp test were also carried out before and after treatment of printing wastewater.