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Sponge-mediated Moringa Oleifera seeds as a natural coagulant in surface water treatment

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Civil Engineering: structural, Geotechnical, reinforced concrete and s…nd sanitary engineering, Hydraulic, Railway, construction Management.

Abstract

Moringa Oleifera seeds (MOS) coagulant has been used as a coagulation agent in water purification. In developing countries, usage of MOS addresses many advantages namely eco-friendly, biodegradable, available and cost-effective coagulant, resulting in a powerful alternative to chemical coagulants. This research revealed the positive effect of MOS with the aid of sponge at different operational conditions and showed a great influence in the purification efficiency without any observed clogging of sponge pores or bad smell emission. Supplementation of the sponge improved the purification efficiency in terms of turbidity and UV254 substances removal from 96% and 72% to be 99% and 93%, respectively with reduced MOS coagulant from 500 to 150 mg/L, respectively. Finally, response surface methodology (RSM) has been employed to get the optimum operational conditions for a residual turbidity value less than 1.0 NTU, which occurred at MOS dose of 250 mg/L and pH value of 6.15 after 12.17 minutes of treatment.

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2021.77902.1055

Keywords

Natural coagulant, Moringa oleifera, Coagulation, oil-extraction, Response Surface Methodology (RSM)

Authors

First Name

Ahmed M.

Last Name

Farghaly

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Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt

Email

a.m.farghaly@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0002-8014-3006

First Name

Ali A.M.

Last Name

Gad

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Affiliation

Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt

Email

aligad64@gmail.com

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First Name

Esraa

Last Name

Abd El-Hamied

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Planning Engineer

Email

esraamouhamed575@gmail.com

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Volume

49

Article Issue

No 5

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18891

Issue Date

2021-09-01

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2021-05-27

Publish Date

2021-09-01

Page Start

597

Page End

619

Print ISSN

1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/article_181166.html

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4

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Research Paper

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1,438

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Journal

Publication Title

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/

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Sponge-mediated Moringa Oleifera seeds as a natural coagulant in surface water treatment

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Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023