International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 1 6 2012 June 2 Removal of Colour of Spent Wash by Activated Charcoal Adsorption and Electrocoagulation 66 69 EN Mostafa M.Rady 1 Agricultural Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, 63514-Fayoum, EGYPT Water Relations and Field Irrigation Dept. National Research Centre, Cairo, 12622 EGYPT MaybelleS. Gaballah 2 Murthy B.R.N. 1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal 576 104, Karnataka, INDIA Lewlyn L.R.Rodrigues 2 Anjaiah Devineni 3 Ipatova V.M. 1 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny 141700, RUSSIA Singh Shachi 1 Center for Biotechnology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, INDIA Agbo G.A. 1 Faculty of Physical Sciences, Industrial Physics Department, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, NIGERIA Ibeh G.F. 2 Ekpe J.E. 3 Magarajan U. 1 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Vellore– 632 014, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Thundilkaruppa RajR. 2 Elango T. 3 Khani Hamid 1 Sama Technical and Vocational Training College, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr Branch, Qaemshahr, IRAN YazdaniQanbar Ali 2 Department of Accounting, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, IRAN Nasiripour A. 1 Department of Health Services Administration, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN Afshar KazemiM. 2 Department of Industrial Management, Tehran markaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN Izadi A. 3 Department of Health Services Administration, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN Idris M.A. 1 Idris O.F. and Sabahelkhier M.K.Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Dongola, SUDAN O.F. Idris 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and technology EL-Neelain University, SUDAN Sabahelkhier M.K. 3 Raval A.A. 1 Department of Microbiology, Arts, Science and Commerce College, Kamrej Cross Roads, Surat, INDIA Desai P.B. 2 Dept. of Microbiology, Shree Ramkrishna Inst. of Applied Sciences, MTB College Campus, Athwalines, Surat, INDIA Parihar S.S. 1 Department of life sciences, ITM University Gwalior, MP, INDIA Kumar Ajit 2 Centre for Biotechnology, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana, INDIA Kumar Ajay 3 College of life sciences (CHRI), Gwalior, MP, INDIA Gupta R.N. 4 Department of P.G. Studies and Research Chemistry, Govt. S.L.P. College, Gwalior, MP, INDIA Pathak Manoj 5 Shrivastav Archana 6 Pandey A.C 7 Bhise R.M. 1 Dept of Chemical Enggineering TKIET,Warananagar, Kolhapur, MS, INDIA Patil A.A. 2 Raskar A.R. 3 Patil P.J. 4 Deshpande D.P. 5 > Short Communication 2012 3 27 2012 June 2 Electrocoagulation is a complex process with a multitude of mechanisms operating synergistically to remove pollutants from the water. In this paper, application of electrocoagulation using common electrode materials (aluminum and iron) to a simulated reactive distillery effluent was investigated. Based on the dynamic characteristics of batch electro coagulation, three operating stages (lag, reactive, and stabilizing) are proposed to identify the relationships among the zeta potential. The experimental results showed that the removal efficiency was better, reaching to about 62%, when applying activated charcoal adsorption before treating with the electrocoagulation cell. The study focuses on the effect of electrolysis time, current density, initial pH, inter-electrode distance, initial dye concentration and type of supporting electrolyte. In the sets of experiments the optimum condition for dcolourisation has been found out. Copyright@ International Science Community Association