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The main objective of this experimental study was to determine the color removal efficiency from wastewater usinglow cost rice husk (adsorbent) than high cost adsorbent like activated charcoal. There are different renewable resources foradsorbent like Coconut husk, sugarcane Bagasse, Almond nutshells, which could be used as alternatives. Rice husk as wastematerial of food industry is a low cost adsorbent. It is available at huge amount from food industries. It can be more utilizedas an adsorbent for removal of color, pollutants from waste of industries. Activated charcoal is high cost adsorbent. It is usedin more industries for removal of color and pollutants but it is highly cost adsorbent so affect on economical process.Rice husk has adsorbed ability to dyestuff from aqueous solution. Rice Husk has been checked for the removal of colorefficiency from waste water samples containing dyes. The experiments were conducted by packing rice husk adsorbent inan adsorption column with certain height. Then by applying a continuous down flow of wastewater through the columnwith overflows rates of different flow rates. Effect of various parameters such as adsorbent dose, color removal efficiency,concentration, Height of packing adsorbent, pH, temperature and time will investigate in the present study. Theexperiments were carried out for a certain time period. The determination of effluent from column adsorption system interms of absorbance, percent transmittance.

Pawan K. Badukale, Mangesh B. Deshmukh, Amol J. Shinde, “Rice Husk (Adsorbent) is Better Option than High Cost Adsorbent for Removal of Color from Waste Water”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 12, pp. 992-1009, December 2017.