Immobilization of microbial cells for the biotreatment of wastewater: a review

ZB Bouabidi, MH El-Naas, Z Zhang - Environmental chemistry letters, 2019 - Springer
Industrial wastewater often contains different complex impurities that are hazardous to the
environment and human health, making wastewater treatment a necessity prior to its …

Immobilization as a powerful bioremediation tool for abatement of dye pollution: a review

P Saha, KV Bhaskara Rao - Environmental Reviews, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Dyes are xenobiotic compounds widely used by textile, leather, paper, printing, food,
pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. Decolorization and dye degradation in the …

Boosting biohydrogen production from dairy wastewater via sludge immobilized beads incorporated with polyaniline nanoparticles

MS Hellal, EM Abou-Taleb, AM Rashad… - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the immobilization of anaerobic sludge in sodium alginate (SA) with polyaniline
(PANI) nanoparticles (NPs) was performed for producing biohydrogen from dairy wastewater …

Decolorization, biodegradation and detoxification of reactive red azo dye using non-adapted immobilized mixed cells

BB Hameed, ZZ Ismail - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Azo dyes are refractory and recalcitrant contaminants that pose a significant impact on the
environment upon releasing to the natural resources. This study focused on the …

Methyl orange biodegradation by immobilized consortium microspheres: experimental design approach, toxicity study and bioaugmentation potential

A Ibrahim, EM El-Fakharany, MM Abu-Serie… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary An efficient immobilized bacterial consortium of Raoultella planticola,
Ochrobactrum thiophenivorans, Bacillus flexus, and Staphylococcus xylosus was used to …

Enhanced biodegradation of toxic pollutants from paper industry wastewater using Pseudomonas sp. immobilized in composite biocarriers and its toxicity evaluation

I Haq, AS Kalamdhad - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study focused on the immobilization of Pseudomonas putida strain using
polyvinyl alcohol mixed with sodium alginate (PVA-SA) and agar-agar (PVA-AA) for the …

Fabrication of immobilized algal-bacterial beads and its application in synthetic mariculture tail water treatment

X Li, X Sun, X Zhou, Z He, K Lin, X Chen… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid expansion of the maricultural scale, the treatment of mariculture tail water
(MTW) has become a focus of marine environmental protection. Meanwhile, as a cost …

[PDF][PDF] Decolorization, biodegradation and detoxification of reactive blue azo dye using immobilized mixed cells

BB Hameed, ZZ Ismail - Journal of Engineering, 2019 - iasj.net
Drastic threat to the natural system is caused by the uncontrolled release of synthetic
pollutants, including azo dyes. This study centered on the decolorization and biodegradation …

New application of gelatin and starch as biocarriers for the biodegradation of reactive blue azo dye using immobilized mixed cells

BB Hameed, ZZ Ismail - Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Reactive azo dyes, if discharged in unmonitored manner to natural water bodies, can cause
remarkable irreversible damage. The current study is centered on the decolorization and …

New application of single and mixed immobilized cells for furfural biodegradation

HA Khudhair, ZZ Ismail - Bioremediation Journal, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, a new application of immobilized microbial cells for biodegradation of furfural in
aqueous solution was investigated using spouted bed bioreactor. Pseudomonas sp., as a …