Mucor biosorbent for chromium removal from tanning effluent

Waste industrial Mucor meihi biomass was found to be an effective biosorbent for the removal of chromium from industrial tanning effluents. Sorption levels of 1.15 and 0.7 mmol/g were observed at pH 4 and 2 respectively while precipitation effects augmented these values at higher pH ranges. Acid elu...

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Published in:Water research (Oxford) 1998-05, Vol.32 (5), p.1407-1416
Main Authors: Tobin, J.M, Roux, J.C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Biological and medical sciences
Biological treatment of waters
biomass
biosorption
Biotechnology
chromium
comparisons
desorption
Environment and pollution
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
fungal biomass
Industrial applications and implications. Economical aspects
industrial effluents
ion exchange resins
metal uptake
metals
Mucor biosorbent
Mucor meihi
Other wastewaters
Pollution
Rhizomucor miehei
sorption
tannery effluent
tannery waste
tanning effluent
uptake
Wastewaters
Water treatment and pollution
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Summary:Waste industrial Mucor meihi biomass was found to be an effective biosorbent for the removal of chromium from industrial tanning effluents. Sorption levels of 1.15 and 0.7 mmol/g were observed at pH 4 and 2 respectively while precipitation effects augmented these values at higher pH ranges. Acid elution of biosorbed chromium increased with decreasing eluant pH to a maximium value of ca. 30% at approximately zero pH. Successive elution stages with increasingly strong acids resulted in a cumulative chromium recovery of in excess of 80%. Both acid and base treatments eluted biosorbed chromium and successive acid/base and base/acid treatments resulted in recovery values approaching 100% at low metal loadings. These values decreased to 80 to 60% at higher biomass metal loadings. In comparative studies with ion exchange resins, the Mucor biomass demonstrated chromium biosorption levels that correspond closely to those of commercial strongly acidic exchange resin while the pH behaviour mirrored that of the weakly acidic resins in solution. The chromium elution characteristics from the Mucor biomass were similar to those of both the weakly and strongly acid resins.
ISSN:0043-1354
1879-2448
DOI:10.1016/S0043-1354(97)00343-6