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Recycling and Treatment of Herbal Pharmaceutical Wastewater Using Scenedesmus quadricuada


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1 National Institute of Miners’ Health, JNARDDC Campus, Wadi, Nagpur 440 023, India
2 CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur 440 020, India
3 Department of Environmental Science, Sevadal Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur 440 015, India
 

Globally, herbal pharmaceutical industries are among the leading pharmaceutical industries. They generate large volume of wastewater during processing and production, which is highly biodegradable in nature and cannot be discharged into environment as such. Hence efforts are being made to evaluate the toxicity of herbal pharmaceutical effluents using green algae Scenedesmus quadricauda. Physico-chemically treated effluents (PCTEs) as well as biologically treated effluents (BTEs) were observed after the application of S. quadricauda. Also, S. quadricauda showed higher growth rate after the addition of PCTE and BTE. The highest yield of algae was observed in BTE up to 15 days of incubation by synthesis of chlorophyll and cell metabolites, even with 10-100% dilution of effluents. The present study also discusses the evaluation of biotoxicity and recycling on herbal pharmaceutical wastewater along with heavy metal removal.

Keywords

Biotoxicity, Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry, Scenedesmus quadricauda, Wastewater.
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Authors

Atul P. Vanerkar
National Institute of Miners’ Health, JNARDDC Campus, Wadi, Nagpur 440 023, India
Abhay B. Fulke
CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur 440 020, India
Satish K. Lokhande
CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur 440 020, India
Manisha D. Giripunje
Department of Environmental Science, Sevadal Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur 440 015, India
Shanta Satyanarayan
Department of Environmental Science, Sevadal Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur 440 015, India

Abstract


Globally, herbal pharmaceutical industries are among the leading pharmaceutical industries. They generate large volume of wastewater during processing and production, which is highly biodegradable in nature and cannot be discharged into environment as such. Hence efforts are being made to evaluate the toxicity of herbal pharmaceutical effluents using green algae Scenedesmus quadricauda. Physico-chemically treated effluents (PCTEs) as well as biologically treated effluents (BTEs) were observed after the application of S. quadricauda. Also, S. quadricauda showed higher growth rate after the addition of PCTE and BTE. The highest yield of algae was observed in BTE up to 15 days of incubation by synthesis of chlorophyll and cell metabolites, even with 10-100% dilution of effluents. The present study also discusses the evaluation of biotoxicity and recycling on herbal pharmaceutical wastewater along with heavy metal removal.

Keywords


Biotoxicity, Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry, Scenedesmus quadricauda, Wastewater.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv108%2Fi5%2F979-983