Electron beam irradiation of textile effluents and  non-ionic ethoxylated surfactant for toxicity  and color removal

Sueli Ivone Borrely; Leonardo Gondim de Andrade Silva; Stephanie Valência Del Sole; Vanessa Silva Granadeiro Garcia; Nathalia Fonseca Boiani; Jorge Marcos Rosa

doi:10.15392/bjrs.v7i2A.702

Authors

Sueli Ivone Borrely Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares
Leonardo Gondim de Andrade Silva Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares
Stephanie Valência Del Sole Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares
Vanessa Silva Granadeiro Garcia Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares
Nathalia Fonseca Boiani Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares
Jorge Marcos Rosa Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15392/bjrs.v7i2A.702

Keywords:

Electron beam irradiation, surfactant, textile effluents, toxicity

Abstract

Textile industry has an expressive scenario in the world economy and Brazil is the 5th in the textile production. By 2015, Brazilian textile production represented US $ 39.3 billion, accounting for more than 1.8 million tons of fabric. The effluents from textile industry are highlighted by quantity of wastewater discharged and variety of substances (dyes, bleaching agents, surfactants, salts, acids, among others). Such compounds often prove to be toxic to aquatic biota. This present study aims to assess toxicity of whole effluents, before and after irradiation (by electron beam accelerator, EBI). In addition, the reduction of the effluent color after irradiation is also very important. Daphnia similis and Vibrio fischeri were the biological systems applied for toxicity evaluations. Previous results demonstrated the surfactant as the main toxic compound, in the untreated and irradiated forms, EC 50 = 0.44 ppm ± 0.02 (untreated); EC 50 = 0.46 % ± 0.07 (irradiated). The irradiation was effective for reducing color of the effluent, starting from 0.5 kGy. EB irradiation may be proposed as an alternative treatment for the final effluent from textile processing, mainly for reuse purposes.

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