@article {10.3844/ajbbsp.2013.47.60,
article_type = {journal},
title = {Biosorption of Ternary Cadmium, Nickel and Cobalt Ions from Aqueous Solution onto Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cells: Batch and Column Studies},
author = {Galedar, Maedeh and Younesi, Habibollah},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
year = {2013},
month = {Mar},
pages = {47-60},
doi = {10.3844/ajbbsp.2013.47.60},
url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajbbsp.2013.47.60},
abstract = {The aim of this study was to remove cadmium, nickel and cobalt ions from aqueous solutions using yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pre-treated with ethanol. The cells are immobilized using polysulfone in both batch and continuous systems. To optimize the adsorption capacity of the yeast biomass, a batch system was used to investigate the effects of initial pH, initial biomass dose and initial metal ion concentration. Optimum conditions were obtained at pH 8 with a biomass of and ion concentrations of 8 and 100 mg L-1, respectively. Under these conditions, the maximum uptake capacity was 3.1 mg g-1 for cadmium, 1.2 mg g-1 for nickel and 0.68 mg g-1 for cobalt. To estimate the biomass uptake capacity of the ethanol pretreated S. cerevisiae, the isothermal Langmuir model was found to be a better fit with a correlation coefficient of R2 },
journal = {American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology},
publisher = {Science Publications}
}