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Biosorption capacity of zinc (II) by biomasses produced from four species of microorganism including two kinds of bacteria (Pseudomonas putida and Streptomyces rimosus) and two kinds of fungi ( Aspergillus niger and Phanerochate chrysosporium) in batch case were investigated and compared. In all cases dried original bio mass and dried pretreated bio mass with NaOH were used. In all cases biosorption capacity of pretreated biomasses were much higher than non-treated biuomasses to the ratio of 3.8 – 1.4 times. Freundlich and Langmuir equilibrium isotherms were used to match with experimental results of this research. Except S.rimosus, all others were completely matched with Langmuir... 

In this work, biosorption of Zirconium from aqueous solution by A.niger as a biosorbent was investigated. For this goal, both of live and dried biomasses were used. The effect of factors pH, temperature, contact time, initial concentration of metal and biomass dosage were investigated on biosorption. To preparing dried biomass,the live biomass was dried at 60-80 º C for 24 hr and then this dried cell was crushed by mortar and pestle and the drying biomass was ground through a set of sieve with 100 mesh. Also, effect of the pretreatment of biomass by NaOH 0.5 M on biosorption was studied. Optimization of factors was performed by Response Surface Methodology (RSM). The experiments were... 

Presence of heavy metals in industrial waste has always been a serious environmental problem. One of such metals in uranium that is used in important industries such as nuclear industry. Thus, it must be excluded from industrial waste efficiently. This research aimed to study effect of local strain of aspergillus niger in bioabsoprtion of uranium from industrial waste in which good absorption was reached and absorption of local strain was compared with that of control strain obtained from PTCC. Also, local strain was collected from uranium anomalies of Bandar Abbas Mining Site and was used to identify it with reference strains available at NCBI site using PCR and proliferation of part of... 

In this study, biosorption of selenium by Pseudomonas putida bacteria was investigated in both single and binary uptake systems. Bacteria cells were immobilized in the chitosan beads, to study impact of microorganism entrapment on the sorption capacity of the fabricated adsorbent. Uptake capacity increased by the entrapped bacterial weight percent up to 20 wt. %; but thereafter, sorption capacity gradually leveled off with an increase in the loading percentage of the bacterial cells.The effects of the three process variables including pH (2-6), biomass dosage (0.5-2.5 g/L) and initial concentration of selenium (50-250 mg/L) on the uptake performance of adsorbent were investigated, and... 

Treatment of Wastewater of textile industries has been always challenging due to the high organic matter which is a suitable substrate for the growth of microorganisms. Also, discharge of wastewater into the open water causes water adsorbing more sunlight, raising water temperature and therefor decreasing dissolved oxygen. In addition, the acidity of wastewater decreases the quality of agricultural soil. Among wastewater treatment methods, biological methods are cheaper, environment friendly, and produce less by product. Among all the microorganism responsible for biological treatment, fungi and enzymes are more applicable. Especially white-rot fungi are the most effective microorganism to...