Asian-Pacific Aquaculture 2019

June 19 - 21, 2019

Chennai Tamil Nadu - India

REMOVAL OF COD AND BOD IN THE INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING MIXOTROPIC MICROALGAL TREATMENT

Aradhana .k* lakshmi.v.v **
*Sri sivasubramanya nadir college of engineering, kelambakkam, Anna university, Chennai
**Tamilnadu Dr.J.Jayalalithaa fisheries university, FC&RI, Ponneri.
Aradhana1993@gmail.com
 

In this study, the waste water from different industry is been treated by the algae (Chlorella vulgaris, Anabaena subcylindrica, Anabaena ambigua). The waste water is been primarily treated from the industries. In this waste water, the main problem is to treat the chemical oxygen demand and the biological oxygen demand. The algae were used to reduce the COD, BOC, nitrogen and phosphate concentration level in the industrial wastewaters. Initially algae are grown in the conical flask containing BBD medium and the Fog medium. Then it is transferred in the reactor. Using these algae biomass concentration was screened, and the biomass concentration growth curve was obtained. The growth kinetics based on the growth curve of the three algae was determined using Gompertz model. Specific growth rate and the biomass productivity was also determined and compared with each other. Maximum biomass productivity was obtained in Chlorella vulgaris. As the algae contain high lipid content it grows  rapidly in the bubble column photo bioreactor.