the rapid growth of industrial activity in recent decades, and non-obedience with environmental laws, along with discharging of contaminant wastewaters from petrochemical industries lead to increase of heavy metals into the environment. biosorption is an effective technology for optimal removal of pollutants such as heavy metals from marine ecosystems. in the present study, the microorganism, r...

three marine bacteria, pseudomonas putida ptcc 1664, bacillus cereus  pttc 1665 and pseudomonas pseudoalkaligenes ptcc 1666 isolated from the east anzali wetland sediments of the caspian sea, were resistant to heavy metals of cadmium (cd), nickel (ni) and vanadium (v). pseudomonas pseudoalkaligenes ptcc 1666 was found to be resistant to all 3 metals ni, cd, v. heavy metal uptake was determined ...

Diverse industrial wastes have aggravated the problem of water pollution. This problem becomes complex because of the non-degradability of inorganic pollutants like heavy metals. Metals have received particular attention among other non-degradable toxic chemicals because of their adverse effects on aquatic life forms. To control water pollution, the immediate problems have to be solved by adopt...

The removal of heavy metals, especially from wastewater, has attracted significant interest because of their toxicity, tendency to bioaccumulate, and the threat they pose to human life and the environment. Many low-cost sorbents have been investigated for their biosorption capacity toward heavy metals. However, there are no reports available on the removal of Pb(II) from aqueous solution by of ...

This study examined the ability of the synthetic mordenite nanocrystal to remove Tl(III) and As(III) from an aqueous solution. The determination of the concentration changes of H+ and OH- quantities in the acidic (pH 3) and alkali (pH 9) treated mordenite nanocrystals were done by the potentiometric titration curves. The maximum uptake capacities (Qmax) of these metal ions using the mordenite i...

Problem statement: The role of plasmid in the heavy metal resistance and accumulation by endophytic bacteria was investigated. Approach: The experimental results showed that high level plasmid mediated Cd and Zn resistance in this strain is due to decreased Cd and/or Zn uptake/accumulation by resistance strain. Results: Based on the fact that subsequent plasmid curing experiments demonstrated t...

absorptive characteristics of polyaniline synthesized in different solvents were studied. water and mixture of water with other solvents were implemented for polyaniline synthesis. synthesized polyanilines in powder shape is used as an adsorbent to remove toxic hexavalent chromium from aqueous solutions. experiments were conducted in batch mode. removal mechanism involving polyaniline is the co...