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Valorization of the Spent Biomass of Pleurotus mutilus Immobilized as Calcium Alginate Biobeads for Methylene Blue Biosorption

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The production of antibiotics in Algeria generates large amounts of residual biomass that should be considered a valuable biosorbent rather than waste. The aim of this work was to assess the use of antibiotic by-product biomass as a biosorbent for methylene blue removal from wastewater. Therefore, the biosorption of the cationic dye methylene blue by spent biomass of Pleurotus mutilus immobilized as calcium alginate biobeads (CAB) was studied in batch and column modes. The maximum uptake capacity was found to be 23 mg/g at a pH value of 10. Methylene blue biosorption by CAB was found to be spontaneous and exothermic. The adsorption capacity of the used biobeads was regenerated in continuous mode by washing the CAB with HCl (0.5 M) solution. Globally, this work showed the high potential of CAB made with spent biomass of P. mutilus as a biosorbent for the treatment of water contaminated with methylene blue.

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This project was supported financially by the Laboratoire d’Étude et de Développement des Techniques de Traitement et d’Épuration des Eaux et de Gestion Environnementale LEDTEGE in Kouba (Algeria) and a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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  1. Laboratoire d’Étude et de Développement des Techniques de Traitement et d’Épuration des Eaux et de Gestion Environnementale-LEDTEG, Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure-Kouba, BP 92, Vieux Kouba, Alger, 16050, Algérie

    Mohamed Hachi & Abdelmalek Chergui

  2. Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la vie, Université Ziane Achour de Djelfa, cité 5 juillet BP 3117, Djelfa, 17000, Algérie

    Mohamed Hachi

  3. Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de L’environnement, Département Génie de L’environnement, École Nationale Polytechnique, 10 Avenue Hassen Badi, BP 182, El-Harrach, 16200, Alger, Algérie

    Abdelmalek Chergui & Ammar Selatnia

  4. Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, 2500, Boulevard de l’Université, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada

    Hubert Cabana

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Hachi, M., Chergui, A., Selatnia, A. et al. Valorization of the Spent Biomass of Pleurotus mutilus Immobilized as Calcium Alginate Biobeads for Methylene Blue Biosorption. Environ. Process. 3, 413–430 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-016-0157-z

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