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Heavy metals in wastewater can cause serious environmental problems and could harm to human body. Therefore, heavy metals needs be removing from the wastewater. Coagulation base methods are popular used nowadays with proved effects. New methods such as the application of nanomaterials have brought more possibilities to increase the removal effects for certain heavy metals. Among these nanomaterials, graphene oxide has gained a lot of interest because of its large surface area and unique structure. Moreover, graphene oxide is a environmentally friendly material. But most of the reported studies did not use real wastewater samples but simulate ones prepared in labs. Therefore, the removal effects needs to be experimentally evidenced by using real wastewater samples. In this project, I have studied the removal effects of pristine and modified graphene oxide using wastewater collected at the wastewater treatment plant in Rajkot (Nyari wastewater treatment plant). Moreover, I have also studied the heavy metal removal effects of combined coagulation method and graphene oxide. Results has shown that graphine oxide has similar removal effects to the coagulation method, indicate the enormous potential of graphine oxide in wastewater treatment!