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Biosorption Behavior and Reuse Potential of Waste Biomass of Aspergillus fumigatus, previously Used in Humic Acid Biosorption, in Removal of Reactive Blue 49

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This study focuses on the reuse of waste biomass after biosorption. The effect of pH on the removal of reactive blue 49 from solution by the waste biomass of Aspergillus fumigatus, already used for humic acid biosorption, is studied for the first time in this paper. It is shown that the optimal initial pH was 2.0. The biosorption equilibrium experiment revealed that Langmuir isotherm fits well the biosorption equilibrium data. The theory maximum biosorption capacity was 60.6 mg/g. Kinetic studies indicated that the biosorption process followed the pseudo-second-order kinetics, and that chemisorption might be the rate-limiting step that controlled the biosorption of dye. Thermodynamic studies revealed that the biosorption was a spontaneous exothermic process and that an increased randomness occurred at the solid-solution interface during the fixation of the reactive dyes onto the active sites of the biosorbent. Through chemical modification experiments, it was found that the lipid extraction process for reduction of biosorption capacity was the greatest (17.7 %) compared with the respective 7.1 % and 6.9 % reductions by carboxyl and phosphate groups modified biomass biosorption. This result combined with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) studies could deduce that lipid took part in the biosorption of reactive blue 49 and occupied a larger proportion among all the biosorption sites. In addition, carboxyl and phosphate groups were the main biosorption functional groups. Thus, it can be proved that the biosorbents can be reused, and still have a good adsorption performance for another adsorbate only if the main biosorption sites in the biosorbent are different.

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The authors are thankful to National Natural Science Foundation committee for providing financial support in the form of project entitled “Biosorption and its mechanism of new reactive dyes by microbiology-humic substance complex” (No. 20807058), and the outstanding young teachers training project funding in institution of higher learning in Guangdong Province (No. Yq2013094). The authors also acknowledge the financial support from the China Scholarship Council.

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  1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, 510225, China

    Baoe Wang, Kangqun Zhou & Hui Liu

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33172, USA

    Baoe Wang & Walter Z Tang

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Wang, B., Zhou, K., Liu, H. et al. Biosorption Behavior and Reuse Potential of Waste Biomass of Aspergillus fumigatus, previously Used in Humic Acid Biosorption, in Removal of Reactive Blue 49. Environ. Process. 3, 843–856 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-016-0188-5

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