Abstract

MORINGA OLEIFERA POTENTIALLY A NEW SOURCES OF BIOREMEDIATION FOR WATER POLLUTION

Jaya Singh, *Saurabh Gupta, Anupama Gautam, and Seema Bhaskar

Abstract

The Moringa tree had spread to most part of Asia, nearly the whole of Africa, South America, southern part of North America and some pockets in Europe. It has been found useful in nutrition, agriculture, soil control, water purification, industrial applications, cattle feed etc. The effect of the seed oil cake of Moringa oleifera on the turbidity of the water and waste/effluent water samples is A considerable reduction in turbidity was obtained in the range of 25.00 – 94.64%. As far as the pH is concerned there was no evidence that fluctuations from pH range of 3.10 to 8.33 indicating that the textile waste water has the highest pH value of 8.33 before treatment with the coagulants to the range from 3.94 – 7.26 (1 hr after treatment with seed oil cake) and 4.08 – 7.16 (24 hrs after treatment with seed oil cake) The seed oil cake of Moringa reduced the turbidity of most water samples in the range of 1.84–20.65% and increased the waste samples in the range of 27.10-31.61%.

Keywords: Bioremediation, Moringa oeifera, Seed oil cake, Water.