Decolourization of textile dye effluent by non-viable biomass of Aspergillus fumigatus

Abstract

The aim of this work was to study the decolourization of textile dye effluent by non-viable biomass of Aspergillus fumigates. The dried non-viable fungal biomass exhibited maximum dye removal at pH 7.0 with temperature of 30ºC and 3 g/l (w/v) biomass concentration, after 24 h contact time. The results showed that the non-viable biomass possessed high efficiency for dye removal from textile effluent.

Keywords

• Aspergillus fumigatus
• decolourization
• textile effluent