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Removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution by fungal biomass

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ENGINEERING IN LIFE SCIENCES
卷 10, 期 5, 页码 480-485

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elsc.200900111

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Adsorption; Chrome effluent; Fungi; Hexavalent chromium; Isotherms

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  1. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi [24/0250/01/EMR-II]

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Chromium compounds are released by industrial processes including leather production, mining, petroleum refining, in textile industry and dyeing. They are a significant threat to the environment and public health because of their toxicity. Removal of hexavalent chromium by living biomass of different fungi was effective in the order of Aspergillus terricola > Aspergillus niger > Acremonium strictum > Aureobasidium pullulans > Paecilomyces variotii > Aspergillus foetidus > Cladosporium resinae > Phanerochaete chrysosporium. Non-living dried fungal biomass showed higher potential for metal removal than living cells. Among all fungi dead biomass of P. chrysosporium, C. resinae and P. variotii had the maximum specific chromium uptake capacity, which was 11.02, 10.69 and 10.35 mg/g of dry biomass respectively at pH 4.0-5.0 in batch sorption. Removal of Cr(VI) by P. chrysosporium from multi-metallic synthetic solution as well as chrome effluent was significant by bringing down the residual concentration to 0.1 mg/L in the effluent, which falls within the permissible range and its removal was not affected by the presence of other metal ions such as Fe, Zn and Ni. Fourier transform infrared spectral analysis revealed the presence of carboxylate (C = O) and amine (-NH3+, -NH2+) functional groups commonly present on the cell surface of all fungi, with possible involvement in chromium binding. The result indicates that non-living fungal biomass either obtained as a by-product of fermentation industry or mass produced using inexpensive culture media can be used for bioremediation of Cr(VI) from chrome effluent on large scale.

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