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Shailendra Kumar Singh1, Ajay Bansal, M K Jha
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144011, India.
Abstract:
The potential of an integrated system for sewage wastewater treatment and biosorption of chromium(VI) was evaluated using immobilized Chlorella minutissima cells. Immobilized algal cells were grown in sewage wastewater in designed photobioreactor for 48 h and then subjected to removal of Cr(VI) from synthetic wastewater. The effect of pH, Cr(VI) concentration, biosorbent dose on Cr(VI) removal was investigated. C. minutissima showed a higher NH(4)(+)-N and PO(4)(3-)-P removal efficiency (above 99% removal) than the NO(3)(2-)-N (58% removal) in 48 h. Biosorption of Cr(VI) was found to be highly dependent on solution pH, biosorbent dose and initial Cr(VI) concentration. Maximum Cr(VI) uptake 57.33 mg Cr(VI)/g dry biosorbent/L of solution was observed at pH2 with 20% (w/v) biosorbent. Further more than 90% of total Cr adsorbed could be recovered using 0.5 M NaOH as desorption medium.
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