Feasibility of Heavy Metals Removal from Compost by Biosurfactant

Biosurfactants have the ability to form heavy metal complexes and clean up heavy metal contaminated soils. In this work, a biosurfactant producing bacterium (Bacillus spp.) isolated from compost and Pseudomonas aeuroginosa ATCC3027 were cultured in whey in order to produce biosurfactant. Compost sam...

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Main Authors: Ghazaleh Jahanshah, Iraj Nahvi, Hanif Khodaverdee, Morteza Barani, Hossein Ghanavati, Seyed Hamid Zarkesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Water and Wastewater Consulting Engineers Research Development 2012-10-01
Series:آب و فاضلاب
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Online Access:http://www.wwjournal.ir/article_1944_d63425b7d14680f495208b57b19aff37.pdf