Industrial Wastewater Treatment by Using Sugarcane Bagasse Pulp and its Derivatives “Efficiency Assessment and Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence

Objective/Contributions:
 

• Characterize sugarcane bagasse pulp using SEM, FTIR, and XRD to determine its potential for adsorption.  

• Test sugarcane bagasse pulp efficiency on textile wastewater.

• Study the effect of the different parameters on treatment efficiency.

• Use Artificial intelligence to maximize efficiency and optimize the parameters to obtain the best conditions for treatment.  

• Obtain activated carbon out of sugarcane bagasse pulp using physical activation.

• Characterize the prepared activated carbon using FTIR, SEM, XRD, and Zeta potential.  

• Examine different parameters on the removal efficiency of activated carbon including pH, concentration, contact time, adsorbent dose, and temperature.  

• Optimize the conditions to maximize the removal efficiency using ANN and RSM.  

• Use isotherm and kinetics modeling to determine the mechanism of adsorption.  

• Fabricate adsorptive sheets out of sugarcane bagasse pulp.  

• Enhance the mechanical properties using additives. 

• Determine the efficiency of the adsorptive sheets at different parameters for textile wastewater treatment.

• Fabricate membrane out of sugarcane bagasse pulp. 

• Pore size measurement.

• Fabricate adsorptive membranes out of sugarcane bagasse pulp and the prepared activated carbon.  

• Characterization of the fabricated membranes.  

• Design a prototype to include the different stages of treatment.  

• Fabricate the prototype.

• Test the fabricated membrane in the prototype on textile wastewater.  

• Test the fabricated membrane in the prototype on pharmaceutical wastewater.

Outcome: Publications

Journal papers 

• Textile wastewater treatment via sugarcane bagasse pulp.

• Evaluation of membranes performance in wastewater treatment by using WAVE simulation.

Conference papers 

• Methylene blue removal on biodegradable adsorption membranes fabricated from sugarcane bagasse pulp. 

• Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solutions by adsorption on physically prepared activated carbon from sugarcane bagasse pulp.

• Valorization of Agricultural and Marine Waste for Fabrication of Bio-adsorbents Sheets.