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Biosorption: An Eco-Friendly Technology for Pollutant Removal

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Water is the most important resource and crucial for all the living being on earth. Industrial and agricultural expansion generates a lot of wastes that contaminate water resources of the earth. These contaminated waste water threatens the human health and ecosystem. Numerous conventional and eco-friendly methods have been implemented to address water pollution. Amongst various methods, biosorption process emerged as unique method for the removal of persistent, toxic pollutant from the industrial waste water. In biosorption process live or dead microbial species like bacteria, fungi, algae and agricultural wastes are used as biosorbent for the removal of potentially toxic pollutants like heavy metals, dye and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Biosorption is a complex process which involves physical and chemical binding, chelation, precipitation and complexation mechanism. Researches demonstrate that study of biosorption kinetic model is important in designing industrial-scale biosorption process. Various operating parameters such as pH, temperature, biosorbent dose, and agitation speed are important in optimizing biosorption process. Further, this chapter also reviews the desorption process which makes the biosorption process more economical due to the recovery of sorbate molecule from the loaded biomass.

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    Mayur Gahlout, Hiren Prajapati & Nirali Tandel

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Gahlout, M., Prajapati, H., Tandel, N., Patel, Y. (2021). Biosorption: An Eco-Friendly Technology for Pollutant Removal. In: Panpatte, D.G., Jhala, Y.K. (eds) Microbial Rejuvenation of Polluted Environment. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 26. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7455-9_9

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