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Biosorption of Heavy Metals: Potential and Applications of Yeast Cells for Cadmium Removal

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Biosorption is a physicochemical process that uses nonliving biomass to remove metal ions. The process is promising and innovative biotechnology, which has excellent economic feasibility for metal removal and/or recovery due to its efficiency, simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and abundance of biomass when compared to industrial synthetic adsorbents. Practically, most biomaterials have an affinity for metal species. By using a low-value biosorbents such as a waste stream, two sustainable goals can be achieved in a single process: reducing the waste stream and removing/recovering metals from industrial effluents. In literature, several studies have investigated the efficiency of various biosorbents to remove/recover metals from solution. This chapter critically reviews different aspects of biosorption research such as the characteristics of an ideal biosorbents, the key main parameters affecting the metal uptake performance, different metal uptake mechanisms, the process advantages and drawbacks, and potential of biosorption as a possible industrial process. It also summarizes key recent developments in these areas and the significance of biosorption in wastewater treatment processes and in the environment.

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  2. Gas Processing Center, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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Hadi, B., El-Naas, M.H. (2019). Biosorption of Heavy Metals: Potential and Applications of Yeast Cells for Cadmium Removal. In: Bharagava, R. (eds) Environmental Contaminants: Ecological Implications and Management . Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 14. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7904-8_11

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