Advances in Applied Research
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Comparison of the efficiency of blue-green algae with commercially available activated carbon in the biosorption of Cr(VI) from an electroplating industrial effluent

  • Author:
  • N. Renugadevi, R. Thenmozhi, P. Lalitha
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 69 to 75

Department of Chemistry, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore - 641 043, Tamil Nadu, India

*Corresponding author: goldenlalitha@gmail.com

Online published on 7 April, 2014.

Abstract

Blue-green algae has been studied for its adsorption efficiency in the removal of Cr(VI) from the effluents of electroplating industries. The biosorption of Cr (VI) using the blue-green algae followed Langmuir adsorption isotherm. 58.69 per cent Cr (VI) was removed by adsorption from an electroplating industrial effluent with the biosorbent at pH 3 at 30°C in 30 minutes of agitation time. Thus the biosorbent (BGA) is found to be useful for the removal of heavy metals like Cr (VI) from aqueous solution from an electroplating industrial effluent

Keywords

Biosorption, blue-green algae, chromium(VI))