Adsorptive Chromatography: A Sustainable
Strategy for Treatment of Food
and Pharmaceutical Industrial Effluents
11
Anand S. Gupta, Piyush Kumar, Soumya Pandit, and Ram Prasad
Abstract
Pollution of water bodies is the major threat to environment sustainability mainly
in the industrial area. The quality of portable water bodies such as river, lakes and
ponds is being tremendously compromised and deteriorated at very high rate by
industrial effluents. Different techniques such as trickling-bed reactor, fluidized
bed reactor (FBR), packed bed reactor (PBR), membrane process and bubble
column reactor (BCR) are being used for treating effluents from different
industries. The effluent is mainly composed of colours, heavy metal traces,
chemicals, drugs and process-related toxins depending on the sector of industries
operated. The effluents from various food and pharmaceutical industries are
mainly treated by carbon as a primary treatment for colour and toxin removal,
followed by membrane as a secondary treatment for various intermediates.
Finally, deodorization and bacterial load reduction by chemical method are
employed.
Although various techniques are being utilized, they lack sustainability and
agility for effluent treatment, which can be overcome by adsorption phenomenon
of chromatographic process. The thermodynamic mechanism in adsorptive chromatography can be strategically used for decolourization, toxin removal, deodorization and bacterial load reduction in a simple one-step strategic approach. The
current chapter focuses on various approaches for effluent treatment of food and
A. S. Gupta (*) · P. Kumar
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
S. Pandit
Department of Life Sciences, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
R. Prasad
Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
R. Prasad (ed.), Environmental Pollution and Remediation, Environmental and
Microbial Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5499-5_11
295
Strategy for Treatment of Food
and Pharmaceutical Industrial Effluents
11
Anand S. Gupta, Piyush Kumar, Soumya Pandit, and Ram Prasad
Abstract
Pollution of water bodies is the major threat to environment sustainability mainly
in the industrial area. The quality of portable water bodies such as river, lakes and
ponds is being tremendously compromised and deteriorated at very high rate by
industrial effluents. Different techniques such as trickling-bed reactor, fluidized
bed reactor (FBR), packed bed reactor (PBR), membrane process and bubble
column reactor (BCR) are being used for treating effluents from different
industries. The effluent is mainly composed of colours, heavy metal traces,
chemicals, drugs and process-related toxins depending on the sector of industries
operated. The effluents from various food and pharmaceutical industries are
mainly treated by carbon as a primary treatment for colour and toxin removal,
followed by membrane as a secondary treatment for various intermediates.
Finally, deodorization and bacterial load reduction by chemical method are
employed.
Although various techniques are being utilized, they lack sustainability and
agility for effluent treatment, which can be overcome by adsorption phenomenon
of chromatographic process. The thermodynamic mechanism in adsorptive chromatography can be strategically used for decolourization, toxin removal, deodorization and bacterial load reduction in a simple one-step strategic approach. The
current chapter focuses on various approaches for effluent treatment of food and
A. S. Gupta (*) · P. Kumar
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
S. Pandit
Department of Life Sciences, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
R. Prasad
Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
R. Prasad (ed.), Environmental Pollution and Remediation, Environmental and
Microbial Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5499-5_11
295