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Table 10.9 ( Cont .)

Adsorbent Dye q max Reference

Modified fungal biomass Disperse Red 1 5.59 [225]

Moss Basic Blue 9 185 [250]

Paenibacillus macerans Acid Blue 062 95.08 [251]

Paenibacillus macerans Acid Blue 225 94.98 [251]

Penicillium sp. Acid Violet 4.32 [252]

Phanerocheate chrysosporium Reactive Blue 4 211.6 [253]

Phanerochaete chrysosporium Reactive Blue 19 80.91 [246]

Posidonia oceanica Astrazon Red 68.97 [254]

Posidonia oceanica Alpacide Yellow 15.11 [255]

Rhizopus arrhizus Reactive Black 5 588.2 [228]

Rhizopus arrhizus Reactive Orange 16 190 [236]

Rhizopus arrhizus Reactive Red 4 150 [236]

Rhizopus arrhizus Reactive Blue 19 90 [236]

Rhizopus nigricans Reactive Black 8 122 [256]

Rhizopus nigricans Reactive Brown 9 112 [256]

Spirodela polyrrhiza Basic Blue 9 144.93 [229]

Spirodela polyrrhiza
(duckweed)

Basic Blue 9 144.9 [229]

Trametes versicolor Direct Red 128 152.3 [257]

Trametes versicolor Direct Blue 1 101.1 [257]

Tre at e d Lentinus sajor-caju
biomass

Reactive Red 120 182.9 [248]

Treated brown alga
S. marginatum

Acid Orange 7 71.05 [244]

Yeasts Remazol Blue 173.1 [232]

Yeasts Reactive Black 5 88.5 [233]

fermentation processes and waste biomass from these processes is a poten-
tial source of cheap adsorbent material.
The major advantages of biosorption technology are its effectiveness in
reducing the concentration of dyes to very low levels and the use of inex-
pensive biosorbent material. Fungal biomass can be produced cheaply
using relatively simple fermentation techniques and inexpensive growth
media [224,234]. The use of biomass is especially interesting when the dye-
containing effluent is very toxic. Biosorption is also an emerging technology