Industrial effluent treatments using heavy-metal removing bacterial bioflocculants

Water SA

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-270

  Lin, J ^a   Harichund, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bacterial removal; Bioflocculant; Flocculating activity; Heavy metals; Industrial effluent

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; BACILLUS SP; BACTERIAL REMOVAL; BIOFLOCCULANT; BIOFLOCCULANTS; ECONOMICAL BENEFITS; FLOCCULATING ACTIVITY; FLOCCULATING AGENTS; HALOMONAS SP; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; ICP-OES; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; METAL REMOVING; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MILLIPORE; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; PURIFICATION SYSTEMS; TEST TUBE; TURBIDITY METER;

BACTERIOLOGY; CHROMIUM; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FLOCCULATION; HEAVY METALS; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; PLATE METAL; SEWAGE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TURBIDITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EFFLUENTS;

ABSORPTION; BACTERIUM; DYE; EFFLUENT; FLOCCULATION; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PURIFICATION; TURBIDITY; WASTEWATER; WAVELENGTH;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CETACEA; HALOMONAS; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS SP.;

EID: 79955087909     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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