Characterization of Active Coagulant Agent from Crude and Extracted Stem of Musa for Treating Food Processing Wastewater

The performance of the extracted banana stem was tested using synthetic wastewater for turbidity removal. The banana stem was chosen for this study due to its abundance as waste. Previously, studies on banana stems were carried out by researchers but did not focus much on its active coagulant agent. This study was carried out to analyze the effect of the extraction process in optimizing the active coagulant agent of the banana stem as a natural coagulant for turbidity removal from synthetic wastewater. Banana stem underwent thorough physical, chemical, and morphological characterization in preparation as a natural coagulant. This study found that banana stems performed superior polysaccharide content, which can act as the active coagulant agent with hemicellulose and lignin. Under optimum operating conditions (2