Lead Biosorption by Yeast-like Morphology of Fungus Mucor indicus

Lead as a heavy and strategic metal and it’s contamination in environment, has very importance in industries. The biosorption of lead(II) ions onto Mucor indicus biomass from aqueous solution was investigated. The cells were pretreated with 0.2 M NaOH solution in order to increase the biosorption capacity of M. indicus. The effect of solution pH, initial metal concentration, and biomass dosage on biosorption was studied. Optimum value for initial pH of solution was obtained 5.5. Ho and Langmuir equations were applied to kinetic and isotherm analysis on experimental data. The maximum metal uptake value (qmax) was found as 12.121±0.002 (mg/g).