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Naba Kumar Mondal1, Angela Samanta2, Shampa Dutta3
1Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
Abstract:
Heavy metal biosorption is an efficient technology for the decontamination of metal from industrial waste water. The present study focused on exploration of Aspergillus niger towards removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution. The influence of different experimental parameters-initial pH, adsorbent dose, initial concentration, contact time, shaking speed, temperature, and their combined effect during Cr(VI) adsorption-was investigated by means of response surface methodology based on four factorial Box-Behnken experimental design. Optimized values of initial Cr(VI) concentration, pH, adsorbent dose, and contact time were found as 33.33 mg/L, 4.6, 1.0 g/L, and 48.45 min, respectively. A. niger showed the highest adsorption capacity 11.792 mg/g at initial pH 2.0. Equilibrium data fitted well to the Temkin and Freundlich isotherms. Cr(VI) biosorption showed Pseudo-second order rate kinetics. The activation energy of the adsorption was estimated as 2.9 × 10-3 kJ/mol. Thermodynamics properties of the Cr(VI) biosorption was spontaneous in nature. Desorption study showed that nearly 94% of the Cr(VI) adsorbed on A. niger could be desorbed using 0.5 M EDTA.
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