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Removal of aluminium from aqueous solution by four wild-type strains of Aspergillus niger

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This paper provides a unique comparison of the performance of four wild-type Aspergillus niger strains in remediation of aluminium(III)-contaminated aqueous solutions. The direct fungal aluminium removal via biosorption and bioaccumulation was compared among all fungal strains, including bioaccumulation efficiency during dynamic and static cultivation. Our results indicate that aluminium bioaccumulation by living biomass outperformed biosorption, although biosorption by non-living biomass is a less time-demanding process. Among others, only one strain significantly differed regarding comparison of dynamic and static bioaccumulation. In this case, a significantly higher removal performance was achieved under dynamic cultivation conditions at initial aluminium(III) concentrations over 2.5 mg L−1. Although the fungal sensitivity towards aluminium(III) differed among selected fungal strains, there was no apparent correlation between the strains’ removal performance and their adaptive mechanisms.

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This research was supported by funds obtained from the Scientific Grant Agency of Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA Nos. 1/0424/18 and 1/0354/19, and COST IS1408 Industrially Contaminated Sites and Health Network (ICSHNet).

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  1. Institute of Laboratory Research on Geomaterials, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Katarína Boriová, Peter Matúš, Marek Bujdoš & Martin Urík

  2. Department of Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Slavomír Čerňanský

  3. Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Alexandra Šimonovičová

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Boriová, K., Čerňanský, S., Matúš, P. et al. Removal of aluminium from aqueous solution by four wild-type strains of Aspergillus niger. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 42, 291–296 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-018-2033-x

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