Rapidly increasing industrialization and urbanization cause serious environmental pollution. Discharge of polluting material from various industries such as smelting, mining, ore processing, metal plating into the environment without treatment causes pollution can have dangerous effects on balance. The utilization low-cost adsorbents biological materials a replacement for costly traditional met...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth of green algae Chlorella sp. on wastewaters sampled from four different points of the treatment process flow of a local municipal wastewater treatment plant (MWTP) and how well the algal growth removed nitrogen, phosphorus, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and metal ions from the wastewaters. The four wastewaters were wastewater before primary...

A low-cost, solution-processed, versatile, microfluidic approach is developed for patterning structures of highly conductive metals (e.g., copper, silver, and nickel) on chemically modified flexible polyethylene terephthalate thin films by in situ polymer-assisted electroless metal deposition. This method has significantly lowered the consumption of catalyst as well as the metal plating solution.

The present study shows a method to recover lead metal from wastewater of wet scrubber in secondary lead smelter. The wastewater is loaded with 42,000 ppm of insoluble lead compounds (TSP) submicron in diameter. The technical background benefits the use of cationic polyfloc solution to flocculate these colloidal solids before press filtration. The polymer solution is injected in the wastewater ...

Cathodic activation examined with reference to the cold fuslon developments (controversy). Historically cathodic activation has been used for plating preparation of p a s s i v e (o x i d e) s u r f a c e s e.g. nickel/chromium alloys, niobium and powdered metals. More recent results of work employing cathodic activation for preparing aluminum for plating will be presented e.g. process paramete...

The biomass of filamentous fungi is an important cost-effective biomass for heavy metal biosorption. However, use of free fungal cells can cause difficulties in the separation of biomass from the effluent. In this study, we immobilized the living conidia of the heavy metal-resistant Penicillium janthinillum strain GXCR by polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-sodium alginate (SA) beads to remove heavy metals...

environmental contamination by toxic metals is a serious problem due to their extreme toxicity towards aquatic life and humans. biosorption is an alternative technology to conventional processes for the removal of metals. biosorption of pb(ii) ions on the lichen biomass of cladonia rangiformis hoffm. is presented in this research. batch experiments were conducted to study the biosorption prope...

the present study is aimed at assessing the ability of   pseudomonas sp. an29 to uptake hg2+ from the metal contaminated environment. the minimum inhibitory concentration (mics) of hg   2+ was 500 μg/ml. pseudomonas   sp. an29 could tolerate pb   2+ (600 g/ml), cu2+ (200 g/ml), cd2+ (50 g/ml), zn2+ (50 g/ml), ni2+ (550 g/ml) and cr   6+ (150 g/ml). the isolate showed typical g...