Pomegranate Seeds as a Sustainable Coagulant for Water Purification

Abstract:

The need for less harmful remedies to olden day inorganic coagulants like alum regarding with health and environment is for a long time pushing for research towards more sustainable options. This has embarked on by researching the capability of pomegranate seeds as an integral component which is environmentally friendly when it comes to treatment process of waste materials. The impacts of pomegranate seed extract at different concentrations were analyzed to find out their abilities in reducing preference ratio, color, and chemical oxygen demand (COD). It’s only at an optimum dose level set at 500 mg/l that a significant decrease in pollutants’ content was achieved such as this case; 78.3% removal efficiency rate was recorded on turbidity followed by 93.5% of TSS removal rate 91.5% color removal efficiency and finally 17.7% COD removal percentage. These findings indicate that pomegranate seed might be considered as an appropriate alternative to traditional coagulants during water treatment processes.

• Periodical: Engineering Headway (Volume 30)
• Pages: 55-64
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-aOe78j
• Online since: January 2026
• Authors: Mohammed A. Mustafa*, Nawar O. Almusawi
• Keywords: Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Natural Coagulant, Pomegranate Seeds, Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Turbidity

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