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Novel preparation of fungal conidiophores biomass as adsorbent for removal of phosphorus from aqueous solution

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The present study focused on phosphorus adsorption by novel fungal conidiophores biomass in aqueous solution. Fungal Conidiophores biomass was prepared from the fungal strains Aspergillus oryzae (YFK) and Fusarium oxysporum (YVS2). The functional groups and morphology of Conidiophores Biomass (CB) from these strains were characterized by FTIR and SEM. FTIR confirms the presence of alcohol, carboxylic acid, carbon dioxide, cyclic alkene, amine, alkene, fluoro compound, and halo compound groups. Batch mode study was carried out with two CB’s such as Aspergillus oryzae CB (ACB) and Fusarium oxysporum CB (FCB) with initial concentration of phosphorus ranging from 20 to 100 mg L−1. Based on the batch experiments, the adsorption kinetics (pseudo first order and pseudo second order), isotherms (Freundlich and Langmuir models), and thermodynamic (standard entropy, energy, and enthalpy) parameters were calculated. The adsorption kinetics and isotherm studies showed that the adsorption data well fitted with PSO kinetic model. From the isotherm results, it was found that ACB and FCB exhibited highest adsorption capacity 25.64 mg g−1 and 26.32 mg g−1 of phosphorus respectively at the optimal condition of pH (7), time (90 min), dose (250 mg), and room temperature (35 °C). Thermodynamics values were found to be endothermic and spontaneous in nature for phosphorus adsorption. Finally, the results suggested that the ACB and FCB are economically feasible cost-effective adsorbent for removal of phosphorus in wastewater treatment.

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D. K. is thankful to Periyar University for University Research Fellowship and K. D. is gratefully acknowledge to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, for providing financial assistance (Award No: 09/810/0025/2018 EMR-I) in the form of Senior Research Fellowship (SRF).

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  1. Dharman Kalaimurugan and Kaliannan Durairaj contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, India

    Dharman Kalaimurugan & Srinivasan Venkatesan

  2. Waste Management and Remediation Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, India

    Kaliannan Durairaj & Palaninaicker Senthilkumar

  3. Zoonosis Research Center, Department of Infection Biology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, 54538, Republic of Korea

    Kaliannan Durairaj

  4. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Alagarasan Jagadeesh Kumar

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Highlights

• Efficient and ecofriendly adsorbent for phosphorus removal using fungi.

• Aspergillus oryzae conidiophores biomass and Fusarium oxysporum conidiophores biomass fungal strains adsorb more phosphorus at temperature (35 °C) and pH (7).

• FTIR Functional groups confirms the presence of alcohol, carboxylic acid, carbon dioxide, cyclic alkene, amine, alkene, fluoro compound, and halo compounds.

• Phylogenetic tree analysis for fungal strain in FCB and ACB Gen Bank with Accession no. of MH539641 and MH539642.

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Kalaimurugan, D., Durairaj, K., Kumar, A.J. et al. Novel preparation of fungal conidiophores biomass as adsorbent for removal of phosphorus from aqueous solution. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 20757–20769 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08307-0

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