Biodegradation of heavy toxic metals with Saccharomyces cerevisiae Biosorbent

Heavy metal pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems to be considered at utmost priority. Hence, there is an urgent need to tune all our activities in compliance with environment friendly manner. Many efforts have been made to search for effective and economic techniques for the removal of heavy metals from water. Alternative process is biosorption which utilizes the dead biosorbent for heavy metal removal. This is having many advantages over the other processes. The biosorption has low operating cost and high efficiency in detoxifying very dilute effluents. Keeping in mind the potentiality and availability of the chosen yeast biomass as an adsorbent, the present work has been carried out to come up with more optimal values and conditions for better biosorption of the toxic metals which are under the category of huge volume and low concentration compounds, by that it will become easy to scale up the technology to apply for large scale effluent treatment plants.