Sewage and industrial effluents from biological treatment plant have been widely used for agricultural irrigation in north part of China. However, effluents after biological treatment still contain heavy metals and persistent organic contaminants. The persistent organic contaminants accumulated in soil may transfer through the food chains and cause adverse health effects on human or biological ...

Studies on plankton of river Cauvery water, Mettur, Salem District, Tamil Nadu was made to assess the pollution of water from January 2003 to December 2003. The qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the variation in river water showed high quantity of phytoplankton and zooplankton population throughout the study period and rotifers formed dominated group over other groups of organisms. The...

Trace metals are intrinsic, natural constituents of our environment. Apart from the natural sources, several anthropogenic ones also contribute to metal concentrations in the environment. Some of the anthropogenic sources of the metals in the environment are: mining, smelting, production and use of the compounds and materials containing the metals, burning of fossil fuels, waste dumping and lea...

Moringa oleifera seeds contain about 40% of highly valued oil due to its wide range of applications, from nutritional issues to cosmetics or biodiesel production. The extraction of Moringa oil generates a waste (65%-75% of seeds weight) which contains a water soluble protein able to be used either in drinking water clarification or wastewater treatment. In this paper, the waste of Moringa oleif...

Adsorption has been proved to be an excellent way to treat industrial waste effluents, offering significant advantages like the low-cost, availability, profitability, easy of operation and efficiency. Biosorption of heavy metals from aqueous solutions is a relatively new process that has proven very promising in the removal of contaminants from aqueous effluents. Biosorption is becoming a poten...

The aim of this study was to examine the histological changes in the liver of fish Channa punctatus (Bloch) for a short term (8day) and long term (30 days) exposure in response to the Phenolic Industrial effluents of Bhilai Steel plant. Fishes were exposed in different concentration (low .01%, .015%, .02, .025%) and ( high concentration 10%, 20%, 30%) of Phenolic effluent. Tissu sections of the...

Comparative study of the removal of the dye Reactive Red 120 (RR-120) from aqueous effluents from textile industry using microalgae Spirulina platensis (SP) and commercial active carbon (AC) were carried out. The batch adsorption systems were evaluated with respect to pH, agitation time, temperature and initial concentration of the dye. The maximum adsorption capacity for dye RR-120 were found ...

Nowadays, water pollution has become a matter of great concern in our society. Most of the water pollutions are related to the industrial effluents. Textile industry is the one of the most important industry in all over world and this industry uses large volumes of water in wet processing operations and thereby, generates substantial quantities of wastewater containing large amounts of dissolve...

Bacillus subtilis C3, a commercial textile dye-decolorizing and -degrading bacterium, was isolated from the common effluent treatment plant (CEPT) of the Jetpur textile dyeing and printing industrial sector situated in the district of Rajkot, Gujarat, India. Here, we present the annotated 4.18-Mb draft genome sequence of B. subtilis C3, providing information about the metabolic pathways involve...

Phenolic derivatives are used as raw materials in textiles, pulp and paper, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, oil-refineries and leather industries. These heterocyclic aromatic chemicals are among the most frequently found pollutants in industrial effluents. Since these compounds are toxic either through ingestion, inhalation or contact even at low concentrations, biodegradation of the effluent is...