Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF TIO2/AL ELECTRODE FOR THE REMOVAL OF DISPERSE DYE IN EC PROCESS

Parameswari Kalivel, Jegathambal Palanichamy and Vijila Moses

Abstract

This research deals with electro coagulation treatment of the synthetic dye solution. The main criteria in this work are to select the right operating parameters for high efficiency of color removal with minimum energy consumption. This process was evaluated using TiO2/Al electrode by spray pyrolysis with TiCl3 and the effectiveness was related with Al. SEM, XRD and EDS analysis were used to analyze the morphological, structural investigation, and percentage of the components of the electrode. The competence of the procedure for electro coagulation to treat synthetic waste water comprising Coralene Navy RDRLSR, Coralene Red 3 G, Rubru RD GLFI dye (disperse dye) has been tested for the impact of operating factors like pH, time, current and electrolyte concentration. The results showed that this method was accomplished to attain the elimination of color (97.2 percent) at pH 7.0 at the original pH of the effluent with TiO2/Al.