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Biosorption of heavy metals using fungal biomass as adsorbent
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Today metals in wastewater pose greatest pollution and give toxic effect to the environment directly effecting human health.As such pollution control boards has given stringent standards that are so costly to be met by small industries .
I am doing my M.tech project on heavy metals removal using fungal biosorbent which is available from most of the fermentation and pharmaceutical industries as waste.This work will help to introduce cheaper systems of heavy metals and equally efficient to costly processes like reverse osmosis. For this I need to know about the general effluent characteristics of metal industry wastewater especially electroplating industry.I want to develop their removal kinetics so that to know the adsorption capacity of the biosorbent I am using for. Also your suggestions in this regard will be appreciated.
Kamal Kumar Jain
M.Tech (Environmental Science and Engineering)
Indian School Of Mines
Dhanbad
India
Student,Indian School of Mines - Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India
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In the USA the EPA has funded hundreds upon hundreds of pollution control research projects, Kamal. Many of which reports will give info on the waste streams if you spend some time searching. But may I suggest that you actually visit one electroplating shop and learn what the pollution control issues really are before trying to solve the problems of every electroplating shop. Despite your best intentions, if you don't actually see a plating shop, and work with a real problem, your project will probably be of little value.
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