International Journal of Engineering Research
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Optimization of effect of pre-treatment on Chromium removal by algal biomass using Response Surface Methodology

  • Author:
  • N. K. Srivastava1,, S. S. Parhi1, M. K. Jha1, T. R. Sreekrishnan2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 167 to 171

1Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India

2Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India

*Corresponding Email: srivastavank@gmail.com

Online published on 8 November, 2017.

Abstract

In this research work green algae was chemically treated with Calcium Chloride or Perchloric acid and Formaldehyde or only washed with distilled water. This pretreated algae was used for equilibrium sorption uptake-studies with Cr(VI). The Box-Behnken Design in response surface methodology by MATLAB was used for modelling the experiments.

Keywords

Green algae, pretreatment, biosorption, optimization, response surface methodology