Bacterial biosorbents and biosorption

K Vijayaraghavan, YS Yun - Biotechnology advances, 2008 - Elsevier
Biosorption is a technique that can be used for the removal of pollutants from waters,
especially those that are not easily biodegradable such as metals and dyes. A variety of …

Metal uptake by microalgae: underlying mechanisms and practical applications

CM Monteiro, PML Castro… - Biotechnology progress, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Metal contamination of a few aquatic, atmospheric, and soil ecosystems has increased ever
since the industrial revolution, owing to discharge of such elements via the effluents of some …

Removal of amoxicillin from water by adsorption onto activated carbon in batch process and fixed bed column: kinetics, isotherms, experimental design and …

MAE de Franco, CB de Carvalho, MM Bonetto… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
The occurrence of emerging contaminants in water and wastewater and their inefficient
removal on conventional treatment is the key issue in the reuse of water resources …

Mathematically modeling fixed-bed adsorption in aqueous systems

Z Xu, J Cai, B Pan - Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A, 2013 - Springer
Adsorption is one of the widely used processes in the chemical industry environmental
application. As compared to mathematical models proposed to describe batch adsorption in …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous fixed-bed biosorption process: A review

A Thirunavukkarasu, R Nithya… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biosorption is one of the solute enrichment techniques driven by the concentration
difference of biosorbate molecules among the bulk liquid phase and solid biosorbent. The …

Fixed bed column performance of Al-modified biochar for the removal of sulfamethoxazole and sulfapyridine antibiotics from wastewater

J Huang, AR Zimmerman, H Chen, Y Wan, Y Zheng… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, biochar derived from bamboo pretreated with aluminum salt was synthesized
for the removal of two sulfonamide antibiotics, sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and sulfapyridine …

Study of Cr (III) biosorption in a fixed-bed column

M Calero, F Hernáinz, G Blázquez, G Tenorio… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2009 - Elsevier
This research analyzes the potential use of the olive stone as a low-cost biosorbent for Cr
(III) from aqueous solutions in a continuous system. First, experiments were carried out in …

Removal of hexavalent chromium from electroplating wastewater by ion-exchange in presence of Ni (II) and Zn (II) ions

P Thiripelu, J Manjunathan, M Revathi… - Journal of Water Process …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents the ion-exchange elimination of hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] from
electroplated industrial wastewater. The effects of experimental factors such as pH, contact …

Phycoremediation: Use of algae to sequester heavy metals

Ankit, K Bauddh, J Korstad - Hydrobiology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industrialization, natural processes, and urbanization have potentially accelerated the pace
and the level of heavy metals (HMs) in soil and underground water. These HMs may be …

Comparative study of biosorption of Zn2+ by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus

JH Joo, SHA Hassan, SE Oh - International Biodeterioration & …, 2010 - Elsevier
Pseudomonas aeruginosa ASU 6a (Gram-negative) and Bacillus cereus AUMC B52 (Gram-
positive) were used as an inexpensive and efficient biosorbent for Zn (II) removal from …