Biosorption of C. I. Reactive Red 2 from Aqueous Solution by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Abstract

The biosorption of C. I. Reactive Red 2 from aqueous solution onto biomass of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was examined. The biosorption studies were carried out under various parameters such as initial pH, contact time and initial dye concentration. The experimental results showed that optimum pH for dye biosorption was found to be 2.0 for the yeast biomass. The bosorption capacity was increased with the increasing initial dye concentration in studied dye concentration range. It was found that the adsorption equilibrium data followed the Langmuir adsorption model. The maximum adsorption capacity obtained from the Langmuir equation at temperature of 30°C was 500mg/g (R2=0.991) for the dye. The results indicate that the biomass of Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be used as an effective biosorbent to removal C. I. Reactive Red 2 from aqueous solution.