Electrochemical Degradation of Textile Dye Wastewater Using Stainless Steel Electrode

Rashid Mohamed Abdulsalam Jabir, Dr. Salim J Attar, Prof. K. S. Kulkarni

Abstract: The last decades the request for environmental conditions has increased dramatically, the biological threats can be expressed in every aspect of the daily life. The efficiency of electrochemical oxidation technique depending on many factors such as material of electrode used, composition of electrolyte, electrical energy density, mass transfer and electrolysis time. This technique has many advantages such as safety, effectiveness of current density, selectivity, less operational cost and environmental safety. In this investigation, the degradation operation by electrochemical oxidation was performed using stainless steel as anode and cathode to treating textile dye wastewater contain of procion red mx5b dye. The effects of operating conditions such as current density, effect of initial dye concentration and effect of pH on the degradation operation was studied at optimistic condition. We concluded from our results that electrochemical degradation can used as pretreatment and we finding this technique are effective to treat our electrolyte.

Keywords: Degradation, Textile Dye Wastewater, Electrochemical Oxidation, Batch Reactor, Stainless Steel Electrodes, UV Spectrophotometer, Electrolysis Time