| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 90, 2019
7th Conference on Emerging Energy and Process Technology (CONCEPT 2018)
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| Article Number | 01013 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Sustainable Energy | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199001013 | |
| Published online | 02 April 2019 | |
Flocculation behaviour of bioflocculant produced from chicken viscera
1 Department of Microbiology, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Nigeria
2 Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
The flocculation performance of bioflocculant produced by Aspergillus flavus S44-1 grown on chicken viscera hydrolysate was investigated. The investigations were carried out using jar testing and kaolin clay suspension as model wastewater. The bioflocculant yielded a minimum of 83.1% efficiency in flocculating 2-12 g L-1 kaolin clay suspension over a wide temperature range (4-80 °C) and functioned maximally at neutral pH. The bioflocculant significantly flocculated different suspended particles such as activated carbon (92%), soil solid (94.8%), and algae (69.4%) at varying concentrations. Bridging mediated by cation is suggested as the main mechanism of flocculation by the present bioflocculant.
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