Physico-chemical analysis of textile dye effluent using microbial consortia mediated degradation process

<strong>ABSTRACT</strong> Physico-chemical analysis of textile dye effluent have shown higher concentrations of total solids, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, total hardness, carbonate, bicarbonate alkalinities, chloride, calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulphate, zinc, chromium, copper and lead was found to be above permissible levels of WHO standards which ensure the presence of pollutant overloaded in the textile effluent. Bacterial consortia was developed with <em>Bacillus subtilis </em>(NCBT 012), <em>Clostridium butyricum</em> (NCBT 017), <em>Enterobacter aerogenes </em>(NCBT 024) and <em>Pseudomonas fluorescens</em> (NCBT 046) and Fungal consortia was developed with <em>Aspergillus erythrocephalus </em>(NCBT 124), <em>Aspergillus fumigatus </em>(NCBT 126), <em>Cladosporium herbarum</em> (NCBT 142) and <em>Fusarium oxysporium </em>(NCBT 156)<em>. </em>Between bacterial consortium and fungal consortium mediated process of textile effluent,…