Cadmium Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Differents Biosorbents

Cadmium is a compound toxic, which can induce adverse effects on the different organs like heart, kidneys, liver, lung, and their exposition has been linked with cancer in humans, hence important remove it of sites contaminated with it. Some methods are used to eliminate this metal from differents contaminated places. The objective of the present work, was analyze the remediation of the heavy metal with nine natural obtained from fungal strains fungi from samples of soil contaminated of zone high-rish, and one of a place near the Universitary zone of San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., México, finding that the biomasses of Purpureocillim lilacinium, Aspergillus flavus, Penicillium sp-1, and Aspergillus terreus, had the best removal rates of the metal (with dithizone at 518 nm), with a removal between 76 and 99%, in the conditions analyzed. These biomasses are a great alternative for the elimination of this and other contaminants from the different high-risk sites, and in this study, the hability of eliminate this contaminant by environmental polluting fungus strain of Purpureocillim lilacinium, was analysed.