Investigations on removal of heavy metals from electroplating industrial wastewater using microbial biosorbents

Abstract

Our Earth seems to be unique with three fourths of its surface covered by water of which only 1 is usable to us The conservation of water is really a global issue that we should all be a part of Due to various industrial processes huge amount of metallic species are released into the environment The increased circulation of the toxic metals through the soils water and air remain an important environmental issue because the metallic species released tend to persist indefinitely accumulating in living tissues throughout the food chain The heavy metals are to be appropriately removed from the waste stream before being discharged into the environment The purpose of the present study is to develop a good biosorbent from microbial biomasses to remove the heavy metals from industrial effluents which may replace the existing expensive adsorbents