Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.M.S.E.
Degree Name
MS in Materials Science and Engineering (M.S.M.S.E)
Degree Granting Department
Chemical Engineering
Major Professor
Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, Ph.D.
Committee Member
John N. Kuhn, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Scott Campbell, Ph.D.
Keywords
Effect of Initial Concentration and Treatment Time, Low Concentration Cobalt Removal, pH Dependence, Mechanism, Langmuir Model
Abstract
A study of biosorption of cobalt metal by Pseudomonas Aerguinosa gram-negative bacterial strain is presented. The present study is carried out to determine the optimum conditions of cobalt biosorption at ultra-low concentration (ppb range) in aqueous solutions. The receptiveness of cobalt metal on the extracellular surface of bacterial strain was examined by varying the pH, Initial concentration of metal and treatment time. Experimental data showed that effect of pH and treatment time is prevalent in biosorption of cobalt and by increasing both these parameters resulted in the efficient sorption of cobalt on the extracellular surface of Pseudomonas Aerguinosa. In some cases, higher initial concentration of cobalt resulted in higher metal removal. However, there is no clear relationship is obtained between efficiency of biosorption and initial concentration of cobalt.
Scholar Commons Citation
Dharanguttikar, Abhaysinh Arvind, "Biosorption of Cobalt by Using Pseudomonas Aerguinosa Bacterial Strain" (2018). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7280
