Title
Optimization of the flocculating capacity of natural coagulants in water treatment
Other title
Optimización de la capacidad floculante de coagulantes naturales en el tratamiento de aguas
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Abstract
The objective was optimize the flocculating capacity of three varities of cacti Echinopsis pachanoi (San Pedro), Neoraimondia arequipenses (Ulluquite) and Opuntia ficus (Tuna) in the artificial wastewater treatment. They were applied 1%, 2% and 3% coagulant doses of the three varieties of cactaceae extracted with 96% ethanol. It was evaluated the flocculating activity (FA) and removal percentage (%R); a significant increase was observed (p-value < 0.05) with the increase in the coagulant dose. The optimization was carried out considering as objective function the %R which were subjected to FA, pH, hardness, alkalinity and BOD5 of water treatment. Which were reported values of 99.09 %R for San Pedro variety, 92.42 %R for Ulluquite variety and 98.98 %R for tuna variety, for doses of 0.207%, 0.246% and 0.754% of coagulant respectively.
Start page
90
End page
95
Volume
87
Issue
212
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental y geológica Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092678078
Source
DYNA (Colombia)
ISSN of the container
00127353
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