Optimization of biological treatment of a dye solution by macroalgae Cladophora sp. using response surface methodology

✍ Scribed by A.R. Khataee; G. Dehghan

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 944 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1876-1070
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2010.03.007

✦ Synopsis

Synthetic dyes are a major part of our life as they are found in the various products ranging from clothes to leather accessories to furniture. An unfortunate side effect of their widespread use is the fact that up to 12% of these dyes are wasted during the dyeing process, and that approximately 20% of this wastage enters the environment (mostly in water supply). Most of these dyes are toxic and potentially carcinogenic in nature and their removal from the industrial effluents is a major environmental problem (Khataee, 2009;Khataee et al., 2009b;Rauf and Ashraf, 2009). In recent years a number of studies have focused on some micro/macro-organisms that are able to biodegrade and biosorb dyes in wastewaters. A wide variety of organisms are capable of decolorization a wide range of dyes include bacteria (