The contamination of ecosystems with heavy metals is an important issue in current world and remediation technologies should be in according to environmental sustainability concept. Bioemulsifier are promising agents to be used in metal removal and could be effective to many applications in environmental industries. The aims of this work was screening the potential production of bioemulsifier b...

In this work, we report the simultaneous determination of cadmium and lead using glassy carbon electrodes (GCE) modified by poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) for linear sweep anodic stripping voltammetry (LSASV). The modification allows metal detection without involving oxygen removal, mechanical stirring and introduction of alloying additions such as Hg, Bi, Sb, etc. during the pre-conc...

A radiotracer study was conducted to investigate the removal characteristics of cadmium (109Cd) from aqueous solution by polypyrrole/ sawdust composite. Several factors such as solution pH, sorbent dosage, initial concentration, contact time, temperature and interfering metal ions were found to have influence on the adsorption process. The kinetics of adsorption was relatively fast, reaching eq...

Removal of cadmium from aqueous solution was studied; using platanus orientalis leaves (POL) and their ash in 2006 in Iran. Bach adsorption experiments were performed as a function of solute concentration, contact time, pH and ironic strength for the experiment. The effect of Ca , Mg , Na and K on adsorption was 2+ 2+ + then examined. The effect of this adsorbent on COD in aqueous solution show...

This study evaluates the potential of Arthrobacter nicotiniae to preferentially remove lead, cadmium, silver and zinc from contaminated soil Amaonye-ishiagu Agricultural Forest, Ebonyi State, Nigeria using standard methods. The revealed optimum values factor as 8ml nutrient volume, 5g organism, 30oC temperature, pH 8 stirring frequency 4pw. showed 79.78% removal 61.50% 48.59% arsenic 7.04% on 3...

The role of structural factors in determining the relative efficacy of dithiocarbamates as chelating agents for the in vivo mobilization of aged cadmium deposits is examined for 23 newly synthesized compounds of this type. The critical feature in determining the efficacy of the compounds in mobilizing intracellular cadmium is the balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups. This balance ...