Packed bed column studies on Cd(II) removal from industrial wastewater by macrofungus Pleurotus platypus

Drash, 1993, Increase of cadmium body burden for this century, Sci. Total Environ., 67, 75 Saeed, 2005, Removal and recovery of lead (II) from single and multimetal (Cd, Cu, Ni, Zn) solution by crop milling waste (black gram husk), J. Hazard. Mater., 117, 64, 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2004.09.008 Crini, 2005, Recent developments in polysaccharide-based materials used as adsorbents in wastewater treatment, Prog. Polym. Sci., 30, 38, 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2004.11.002 Sud, 2008, Agricultural waste material as potential adsorbent for sequestering heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions — a review, Bioresour. Technol., 99, 6017, 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.11.064 Vimala, 2009, Biosorption of cadmium (II) and lead (II) from aqueous solutions using mushrooms: a comparative study, J. Hazard. Mater., 168, 376, 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.02.062 Tsezos, 1981, Biosorption of uranium and thorium, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 23, 583, 10.1002/bit.260230309 Muzzarelli, 1989, Chelating film forming and coagulating ability of the chitosan–glucan complex from Aspergillus niger industrialwastes, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 22, 885, 10.1002/bit.260220412 Rome, 1987, Copper biosorption by Rhizopus arrhizus, Cladosporium resinae and Penicillium italicum, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 26, 84, 10.1007/BF00282153 Townsley, 1986, Biorecovery ofmetallic residues from various industrial effluents using filamentous fungi, Process Metall., 4, 279 Smith, 1963, The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide, 67 Muraleedharan, 1994, Investigations of fungal fruiting bodies as biosorbents for the removal of heavy metals from industrial processing streams, Sep. Sci. Technol., 29, 1893, 10.1080/01496399408002178 Zulfadhly, 2001, Heavy metal removal in fixed bed column by the macrofungus Pycnoporus sanguineus, Environ. Pollut., 112, 463, 10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00136-6 Chu, 2004, Improved fixed-bed models for metal biosorption, Chem. Eng. J., 97, 233, 10.1016/S1385-8947(03)00214-6 Benefield, 1982 Hendershot, 1993, Ion exchange and exchangeable cations, 167 APHA, 1995 Davis, 2000, Sargassum seaweed as biosorbent for heavy metals, Water Res., 34, 4270, 10.1016/S0043-1354(00)00177-9 Vijayaraghavan, 2005, Biosorption of copper, cobalt and nickel by marine green alga Ulva reticulata in a packed column, Chemosphere, 60, 419, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.12.016 Aksu, 2002, Biosorption of chromium (VI) ions byMowital® B3OH resin immobilized activated sludge in a packed bed: comparisonwith granular activated carbon, Process Biochem., 38, 175, 10.1016/S0032-9592(02)00053-5 Metcalf and Eddy Inc., 2003 Lee, 2001, Modified Design Model for the Adsorption of Dye onto Peat, I ChemE, Part C, Food Bioprod. Process., 79, 21, 10.1205/09603080151123326 Santhy, 2006, Removal of reactive dyes from wastewater by adsorption on coir pith activated carbon, Bioresour. Technol., 97, 1329, 10.1016/j.biortech.2005.05.016 Bohart, 1920, Some aspects of the behavior of charcoal with respect to chlorine, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 42, 523, 10.1021/ja01448a018 Hutchins, 1973, New method simplifies design of activated carbon systems, Chem. Eng., 80, 133 Ko, 2000, Optimised correlations for the fixed bed adsorption of metal ions on bone char, Chem. Eng. Sci., 55, 5819, 10.1016/S0009-2509(00)00416-4 Cooney, 1999, Adsorption Design for Wastewater Treatment, 137