Biosorption of Reactive Dye From Textile Industry Effluent by Aspergillus Fumigatus
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2010
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Reactive dyes are important chemical pollutants from textile industries. The dye decolorizing
fungal strain was isolated from reactive dye effluent contaminated soil. It was identified as
Aspergillus fumigatus based on lactophenol cotton blue staining. A.fumigatus could tolerate and
biosorp reactive dye under optimized conditions. Maximum decolorization was observed at 3"* day
of incubation at 40“C and the optimum inoculum concentration was foimd to be 3% at pH 8. These
results suggest that A.fumigatus is more effective for color removal from reactive dye effluent.