The purpose for this study is to de-color C.I. Acid Blue 40 simulated textile wastewater using chitosan and UV/TiO2 system. The methodology is to use chitosan biopolymer and UV/TiO2 to degrade textile wastewater and to measure the color removal by UV-visible spectrophotometer. The operational parameters are chitosan, TiO2, pH and reaction time. From the laboratory investigations, different efficiencies were observed according to different removal operating levels. Single chitosan of 2500 ppm dose was used to remove Acid Blue 40 textile wastewater and to obtain a better efficiency. TiO2 alone with UV light was also used with the dose of 2500 ppm to obtain a better efficiency. In acidity, both chitosan and TiO2 obtain better efficiencies under pH 4 operational condition. The best combination for UV/TiO2 system to de-color the 50 ppm Acid Blue 40 textile wastewater was TiO2 2500 ppm concentration with UV illumination at pH 4. The result shows that the de-colorization efficiency reached 98.8% elimination after 210 min of reaction time.Keywords: Chitosan biopolymer, UV/TiO2, Acid Blue 40, textile wastewater, spectrophotometerAfrican Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 9(34), pp. 5575-5580, 23 August, 201
