Treatment of Wastewater from a Dairy Industry Using Rice Husk as Adsorbent: Treatment Efficiency, Isotherm, Thermodynamics, and Kinetics Modelling

Table 1

Characteristics of dairy wastewater.

Initial parameters of wastewater
COD	468 mg/L
BOD	210 mg/L
Oil and grease	240 mg/L
Chloride	136 mg/L (less than 250 ppm)
Alkalinity	462.5 mg/L CaCo3 equivalent
pH	7.34–7.38
TSS	942 mg/L
TDS	680 mg/L
Conductivity	1200 mS/cm