Pérez-Marín A B, Ballester A, González F, Blázquez M L, Muñoz J A, Sáez J, Zapata V Meseguer
Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Bioresour Technol. 2008 Nov;99(17):8101-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.03.035. Epub 2008 Apr 28.
The biosorption of several metals (Cd2+, Zn2+ and Pb2+) by orange wastes has been investigated in binary systems. Multicomponent sorption isotherms were obtained using an original procedure, similar to that proposed by Pagnanelli et al. [Pagnanelli, F., Petrangeli, M.P., Toro, L., Trifoni, M., Veglio, F., 2001a. Biosorption of metal ions on Arthrobacter sp.: biomass characterization and biosorption modelling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 34, 2773-2778] for monoelement systems, known as subsequent addition method (SAM). Experimental sorption data were analysed using an extended multicomponent Langmuir equation. The maximum sorption uptake was approximately 0.25mmol/g for the three binary systems studied. The reliability of the proposed procedure for obtaining the equilibrium data in binary systems was verified by means of a statistical F-test.