“…Among various wastes biomass for metal removal such as yeast (Göksungur et al 2005;Han et al 2006), bacteria (Halttunen et al 2007;Loaic et al 1997;Teemu et al 2008) and fungi (Kapoor et al 1999), algal biomass is favorite adsorbent because of its low cost and widespread abundance (Carlsson et al 2003;He and Chen 2014). Algal biomass used for adsorptive removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater include green algae (Cu 2+ , Cd 2+ , As 3+ ) (Ghoneim et al 2014;Jayakumar et al 2015;Tuzen et al 2009), brown algae (aluminum, molybdenum and rhenium, Cd 2+ , Zn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Cr 6+ , Cu 2+ , Co 2+ ) (Akbari et al 2015;Sar and Tuzen 2009;Lou et al 2015;Freitas et al 2008;Javadian et al 2013), marine green algae (Cr 6+ ) (Jayakumar et al 2014), dead green algal biomass (Cu 2+ , Zn 2+ , Cd 2+ and Pb 2+ ) (Areco et al 2012), macro algae (Cd 2+ ) (Sarada et al 2014), red algae (total chromium, Cd 2+ ) (Sar and Tuzen 2008a, b), fresh water algae (cadmium and lead) (Abdel-Aty et al 2013).…”