Electrolysis Using Carbon Electrodes to Treat Textile Wastewater for Chemical Oxygen Demand, Turbidity and Colour

Abstract

Large amounts of wastewater comprising stubborn dyes and other textile processing chemicals are often produced by textile factories. It has been shown that the effluents emitted from these enterprises have a significant pollution load (high dissolved solids, COD, color, and chloride content) and are not easily biodegradable. As a result, discharging untreated textile effluent has serious environmental consequences. Historically, biological procedures, adsorption, the membrane process, and chemical coagulation have all been utilized to treat actual textile effluent. It has become more difficult to use conventional technologies to treat high-strength and complicated textile effluent. The idea, history, and several industrial uses of electro coagulation therapy, including optimization, modeling, combination composition, and comparisons to other treatment methods, are described and discussed in detail in this paper.