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Recent Advances in Biosorption Technology

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 6399

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Prof. Dr. Eliseo Cristiani-Urbina

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Departamento de Ingeniería Bioquímica, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Av. Wilfrido Massieu s/n, Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos, Ciudad de Mexico 07738, Mexico
Interests: food microbiology; fermentation; waste valorization; fermented dairy; fermented meat; fermented plant-based foods; probiotics; prebiotics; postbiotics; parabiotics; synbiotics; nutraceuticals; functional foods; nutritional foods; bioactive compounds; sensory properties; consumer preferences; food safety; food preservation; food quality
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Dear Colleagues,

Biosorption is an attractive and viable technology for removing toxic inorganic and organic pollutants or for recovering valuable resources from aqueous wastewaters and represents one of the main components of environmental and bioresource technology. This Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Biosorption Technology” invites the submission of original research papers, review papers, and short communications discussing recent trends, new developments, and applications in biosorption of toxic heavy metal ions, metalloids, radionuclides, and organic compounds such as dyes, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, organochlorines, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, among others. Contributions related to the recovery of substances from aqueous solution (e.g., precious metals, microelements, proteins, antibodies, peptides) are also very welcome. Likewise, we are keen to receive contributions that discuss the promotion, marketing, distribution, use, regeneration, and sustainable management of biosorbents.

Prof. Dr. Eliseo Cristiani-Urbina
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • biosorption
  • biosorbents
  • wastewater
  • metal ions
  • xenobiotic organic compounds
  • emerging contaminants
  • precious and critical metals
  • recovery of valuable resources

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Arsenic Biosorption by the Macroalgae Chondracanthus chamissoi and Cladophora sp.
by Nélida Milly Otiniano, Magaly De La Cruz-Noriega, Luis Cabanillas-Chirinos, Segundo Rojas-Flores, Miguel A. Muñoz-Ríos, Walter Rojas-Villacorta and Heber Robles-Castillo
Processes 2022, 10(10), 1967; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10101967 - 29 Sep 2022
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The biosorption of arsenic (As) with macroalgae has aroused much interest as a clean and low-cost technology. To evaluate arsenic biosorption by Chondracanthus chamissoi and Cladophora sp., approximately 5 kg of algae was collected from Huanchaco’s beach and Sausacocha lake (Huamachuco), La Libertad. [...] Read more.
The biosorption of arsenic (As) with macroalgae has aroused much interest as a clean and low-cost technology. To evaluate arsenic biosorption by Chondracanthus chamissoi and Cladophora sp., approximately 5 kg of algae was collected from Huanchaco’s beach and Sausacocha lake (Huamachuco), La Libertad. As biosorption was carried out in four column systems, with 2 g of algae pellets each, circulating As solutions of 0.25 and 1.25 ppm, respectively, at 300 mL/min cm2. As concentration was determined at 3 and 6 h of treatment by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Data were analyzed using Student’s t-test with 95% confidence. At 6 h, Chondracanthus chamissoi presented an As biosorption of 95.76% in a 0.25 ppm mg/L solution and 85.33% in a 1.25 mg/L solution. Cladophora sp., at 6 h, presented an As biosorption of 95.76% in a 0.25 mg/L solution and 42.03% in a 1.25 mg/L solution. It was concluded that Chondracanthus chamissoi achieves higher percentages of biosorption than Cladophora sp. in solutions of 1.25 mg/L As (p < 0.05), and that there is no significant difference between the biosorption percentages of Chondracanthus chamissoi and Cladophora sp. in a 0.25 mg/L solution of As at 6 h of treatment (p > 0.05). Full article
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Equilibrium Biosorption of Zn2+ and Ni2+ Ions from Monometallic and Bimetallic Solutions by Crab Shell Biomass
by Liliana Morales-Barrera and Eliseo Cristiani-Urbina
Processes 2022, 10(5), 886; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10050886 - 29 Apr 2022
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This work explored the technical feasibility of using crab shell (CS) as a promising, low-cost biosorbent to individually and simultaneously remove Zn2+ and Ni2+ from aqueous solutions. It was found that in both monometallic and bimetallic systems, Zn2+ and Ni [...] Read more.
This work explored the technical feasibility of using crab shell (CS) as a promising, low-cost biosorbent to individually and simultaneously remove Zn2+ and Ni2+ from aqueous solutions. It was found that in both monometallic and bimetallic systems, Zn2+ and Ni2+ biosorption by CS was strongly dependent on the solution pH, with the optimum biosorption occurring at a pH of 6.0 for both heavy metals. The obtained isotherms for Zn2+ and Ni2+ biosorption onto CS in monometallic and bimetallic systems demonstrated that CS has a higher affinity for Zn2+ than for Ni2+. The experimental equilibrium data for the bimetallic system revealed that when one heavy metal is present in the system, there is a decrease in the equilibrium biosorption capacity for the other heavy metal; therefore, the combined action of Zn2+ and Ni2+ was antagonistic. The Sips and Redlich–Peterson isotherm models best fitted the equilibrium biosorption data for Zn2+ and Ni2+ in the monometallic systems, while the modified Sips model best fitted the binary biosorption equilibrium data. DRIFTS analyses indicated that carbonate ion, chitin, and proteins are mainly involved in the biosorption of Zn2+ and Ni2+ by CS from aqueous solutions, as confirmed using a range of analytical techniques. Full article
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Biosorption of Precious Metals Present at Dilute Concentrations on Fungal Pellets
by Adriana Jazmín Legorreta-Castañeda, Carlos Alexander Lucho-Constantino, Claudia Coronel-Olivares, Rosa Icela Beltrán-Hernández and Gabriela A. Vázquez-Rodríguez
Processes 2022, 10(4), 645; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10040645 - 25 Mar 2022
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Biosorption on fungal pellets constitutes a promising way of removing precious metals, which are often present at dilute concentrations in wastewater. Herein, we studied the Ag and Au biosorption by Aspergillus tabacinus and Cladosporium cladosporioides pellets. For A. tabacinus pellets the optimum pH [...] Read more.
Biosorption on fungal pellets constitutes a promising way of removing precious metals, which are often present at dilute concentrations in wastewater. Herein, we studied the Ag and Au biosorption by Aspergillus tabacinus and Cladosporium cladosporioides pellets. For A. tabacinus pellets the optimum pH values for the biosorption of Ag and Au were 5 and 4, respectively, while for C. cladosporioides granules, the best-suited values were 3 and 4, respectively. Biosorption kinetics of both metals were also studied at low adsorbate concentrations (1 mg/L) and the pH values mentioned above, and the contact times that allow maximum recovery of the two metals were defined. At the pH values estimated as optimum, A. tabacinus pellets adsorbed greater amounts of Ag than C. cladosporioides pellets, while for Au the opposite occurred. We found that the pseudo-second-order model adequately represents Ag and Au biosorption kinetics under the conditions tested. Due to the growing demand and limited availability of these metals, their recovery from aqueous residual solutions is economically attractive and desirable in the expanding circular economy scheme. Full article
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