Effectiveness of Chick Pea Seed (Cicer arietinum) and Solar Heat as Coagulant for Water Purification

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Many families have no access in water in the present time so they tend to used unsafe water to use in their everyday living. Unsafe water contain contaminants that causes diseases including diarrhea that reported with highest death cases each day. For this reason, water purification study was conducted. The combination of a natural indigenous seed, the cicer arietinum, and solar heat as a coagulant in water purification. This study mainly focused on the removal of turbidity and coliform

METHODS

The experiments were carried out with three treatments the T0 (0 seed-1 liter) or the control group, T1 (1 seed-1 liter), T2 (2 seed-1 liter). In the experiment, the dry seeds were crushed and poured the corresponding concentration of the powder in the treatments to the right marked bottles equally exposed to sunlight for about 6 hours. Nephelometers are the instruments used for measuring the turbidity of water and Coliform Bacteria Analysis to test the total coliform of the water sample.

RESULTS

The data from the laboratory test were computed and analyzed. The results showed that in T1 (1 seed-1 liter) have a 78.1% turbidity removal efficiency and 67.5% coliform removal efficiency while in T2 (2 seeds-1 liter) for about 85.79% in turbidity removal efficiency and 86.25% in coliform removal efficiency. The highest turbidity removal efficiency and coliform removal efficiency was obtained in the treatment with 2 seeds. Results revealed that there is a significant difference between the treatments and the control group in turbidity and coliform based on the data computed.

DISCUSSIONS

The study concludes that Chick pea seed and solar heat as a combination for water purification is effective in removing turbidity and coliform in contaminated water. The study suggest to the future researcher to test other parameters and suggested to have a new source of water sample.