Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 116, Issue -, Pages 1296-1303Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.05.105
Keywords
Microalgae; High rate algal pond; Cationic starch; Harvesting
Funding
- Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt
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Cationized starch-based flocculation processes are the subject of increasing attention because of their non toxicity, biodegradability and relatively low price synthesized. The study aimed to evaluate the flocculability of different cationic starches using different concentrations of glycidyltrimethylammonium chloride (GTAC) with different degree of substitution (DS) ranged from 0.13 to 0.57. Cationized starch were characterized using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and toxicity checked using experimental animal procedure. They were used in comparison with aluminum sulphate for harvesting microalgal biomass collected from high rate algal pond (HRAP) at Zenin wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), Giza, Egypt. Jar test showed that gradual increase of aluminum sulphate doses (50-400 mg/L) has reduced algal suspension consequently turbidity with accompanied pH decrease from 8.6 to 6.6. Cationic starch with low DS has shown efficiency as flocculants by reducing turbidity of algal suspension from 110 to approximate to 2 NTU by gradual increase from 10 to 60 mg/L without change in pH value. Fecal coliforms and E. coli were inhibited from 9.6 x 10(2) and 8.4 x 10 CFU/ml to non-detectable count. Cationic starch with high DS (0.57) has the least effect of algae harvesting and turbidity reduction that 40 NTU after increase the dose to 60 mg/L. Results showed that 10 mg of cationic starch (DS = 0.13) has achieved the same flocculation efficiency of 100 mg of aluminum sulphate. In conclusion, further investigation is required to increase the degree of substitution of cationic starch, consequently the flocculation efficiency might be improved. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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