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Removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater by free and immobilized cells of Aspergillus niger
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Aspergillus niger, strain B 77, was immobilized by inclusion in two different polymers: polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel (PVA) and Ca- alginate as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation.The article was published on 2010-09-01. It has received 120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biosorption & Aspergillus niger.read more
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Efficient techniques for the removal of toxic heavy metals from aquatic environment: A review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a sketch about treatment technologies followed by their heavy metal capture capacity from industrial effluent, the treatment performance, their remediation capacity and probable environmental and health impacts were deliberated in this review article.
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Heavy metals and living systems: An overview.
TL;DR: Molecular understanding of plant metal accumulation has numerous biotechnological implications also, the long term effects of which might not be yet known.
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Potential use of algae for heavy metal bioremediation, a critical review.
Amin Keyvan Zeraatkar,Hossein Ahmadzadeh,Ahmad Farhad Talebi,Navid R. Moheimani,Mark P. McHenry +4 more
TL;DR: This work evaluates pretreatment, immobilization, and factors affecting biosorption capacity, such as initial metal ion concentration, biomass concentration, initial pH, time, temperature, and interference of multi metal ions and introduces molecular tools to develop engineered algal strains with higher biosorptive capacity and selectivity.
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Aerobic biodegradation of BTEX: Progresses and Prospects
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of old and recent literature dealing with the aerobic biodegradation of BTEX can be found in this article, where a discussion on recent research development such as innovative approaches, reactors and microorganisms are discussed in detail.
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Comparative study of biosorption of Zn2+ by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus
TL;DR: Pseudomonas aeruginosa ASU 6a and Bacillus cereus AUMC B52 were used as an inexpensive and efficient biosorbent for zinc removal from aqueous solutions.
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Biosorption of Heavy Metals
Bohumil Volesky,Z. R. Holan +1 more
TL;DR: The state of the art in the field of biosorption is reviewed, with many references to recent reviews and key individual contributions, and the composition of marine algae polysaccharide structures, which seem instrumental in metal uptake and binding are discussed.
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Selective adsorption of chromium(VI) in industrial wastewater using low-cost abundantly available adsorbents
TL;DR: In this article, the removal of poisonous Cr(VI) from industrial wastewater by different low-cost abundant adsorbents was investigated, including wool, olive cake, sawdust, pine needles, almond shells, cactus leaves and charcoal were used at different adsorbent/metal ion ratios.
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Fungal biosorption — an alternative treatment option for heavy metal bearing wastewaters: a review
Anoop Kapoor,T Viraraghavan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of fungal biomass as sorbents is indicated by the available data, and more research and development of the fungal biosorption technology is recommended.
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The removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions by sawdust adsorption--removal of lead and comparison of its adsorption with copper.
TL;DR: The results indicate the potentially practical value of this method in industries and also provide strong evidence to support the adsorption mechanism proposed.
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Biosorption of heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions by activated sludge
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used different pretreated activated sludge as bioadsorbent for Cu2+, Cd2+ and Ni2+ using both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models fit the adsorption data with different types of sludge and ions.