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Heavy metal biosorption is an efficient technology for the decontamination of metal from industrial waste water. The present study focused on exploration of Aspergillus niger towards removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution. The influence of different experimental parameters—initial pH, adsorbent dose, initial concentration, contact time, shaking speed, temperature, and their combined effect during Cr(VI) adsorption—was investigated by means of response surface methodology based on four factorial Box–Behnken experimental design. Optimized values of initial Cr(VI) concentration, pH, adsorbent dose, and contact time were found as 33.33 mg/L, 4.6, 1.0 g/L, and 48.45 min, respectively. A. niger showed the highest adsorption capacity 11.792 mg/g at initial pH 2.0. Equilibrium data fitted well to the Temkin and Freundlich isotherms. Cr(VI) biosorption showed Pseudo-second order rate kinetics. The activation energy of the adsorption was estimated as 2.9 × 10−3 kJ/mol. Thermodynamics properties of the Cr(VI) biosorption was spontaneous in nature. Desorption study showed that nearly 94% of the Cr(VI) adsorbed on A. niger could be desorbed using 0.5 M EDTA.

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In this work, adsorption of carbaryl from aqueous solution on Pistia stratiotes biomass was investigated. The effects of operating parameters such as initial concentration, pH, adsorbent dose and contact time on the adsorption of carbaryl were analyzed using response surface methodology. The proposed quadratic model for central composite design fitted very well to the experimental data that it could be used to navigate the design space according to analysis of variance results. Response surface plots were used to determine the interaction effects of main factors and optimum conditions of the process. The optimum adsorption conditions were found to be initial carbaryl concentration = 15.57 mg L-1 , pH 2.01, adsorbent dose = 0.72 g and contact time = 30 min. The Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin isotherm models were applied to the equilibrium data. The maximum biosorption capacity of P. stratiotes biomass for carbaryl was found to be 3.1 mg g-1. The pseudo-second-order kinetic model described the carbaryl biosorption process with a good fitting.

The adsorption capacities of new biomaterials derived from lemon leaf (Citrus sp.) toward fluoride ions have been explored by varying different physicochemical parameters such as pH, initial concentration, adsorbent dose, contact time, stirring rate and temperature. The entire study was done through batch process. Maximum fluoride adsorption of 96.9%-98.8% was achieved with an initial concentration of 10 mg/L. Langmuir isotherm model well expressed fluoride adsorption onto LLD-1, LLD-2 and LLD-3. According to correlation coefficient, the fluoride adsorption onto these 3 adsorbents was correlated well with pseudo-second-order kinetic model. From thermodynamic study, the spontaneous nature and feasibility of the adsorption process with negative enthalpy (∆H 0) value also supported the exothermic nature were shown. The rate of fluoride adsorption was mathematically described as a function of experimental parameters and was modeled through Box-Behnken (Response surface methodology). The results showed that the responses of fluoride adsorption were significantly affected by the quadratic term of pH, initial concentration, contact time and temperature and the statistical analysis was performed by ANOVA which indicated good correlation of experimental parameters.