Author(s)

Gokulalakshmi Elayaperumal¹, Bhaskaran Sathyapriya², M. Vanitha Chinnathambi^3*

¹Human Genetics Laboratory, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
²Department of Anatomy, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
³Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak College Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.

Fish scale wastes are generally discarded in the environment through fish processing industries and local market vendors. It is one of the excellent and efficient renewable bioproducts. Consequently, a number of bioactive compounds have been identified including bioactive peptides, collagen, chitosan, and gelatin which are commercially marketed. The current study involves the extraction and generation of chitosan nanoparticles from fish scales. The synthesized chitosan nanosubstances were categorized by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM). The viability of utilizing fish scales as an economical bio-adsorbent for elimination of textile dye was studied on industrial effluent. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to study the dye adsorption of chitosan nanoparticles before and after the dye treatment. With chitosan nanoparticle treatment of the textile effluents, removal of COD was improved to 80% and the turbidity removal efficiency was improved up to 90%. Thus, the present study provides an excellent bio-adsorbent chitosan nanoparticle generated from fish scales which have potential application as an adsorbent in bioremediation like wastewater treatment.

Chitosan Nanoparticle, Fish Scale, Bio Adsorption, Textile Effluents

Elayaperumal, G. , Sathyapriya, B. and Chinnathambi, M. (2019) Isotherm and Thermodynamic Studies on the Bio Adsorption of Textile Industrial Effluents onto Chitosan Nanoparticle from Macolor Niger (White Snapper). Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology, 10, 1-10. doi: 10.4236/jbnb.2019.101001.