Biosorption of Methylene Blue by De-Oiled Algal Biomass: Equilibrium, Kinetics and Artificial Neural Network Modelling

Rahulkumar Maurya; Tonmoy Ghosh; Chetan Paliwal; Anupama Shrivastav; Kaumeel Chokshi; Imran Pancha; Arup Ghosh; Sandhya Mishra

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109545

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Biosorption of Methylene Blue by De-Oiled Algal Biomass: Equilibrium, Kinetics and Artificial Neural Network Modelling

Rahulkumar Maurya,

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Tonmoy Ghosh,

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Chetan Paliwal,

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Anupama Shrivastav,

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Bioenergy Engineering Research Laboratory, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, KAIST, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea
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Kaumeel Chokshi,

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Imran Pancha,

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Arup Ghosh,

Affiliations Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Discipline of Wasteland Research, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Sandhya Mishra

* E-mail: smishra@csmcri.org

Affiliations Discipline of Salt & Marine Chemicals, CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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Biosorption of Methylene Blue by De-Oiled Algal Biomass: Equilibrium, Kinetics and Artificial Neural Network Modelling

Rahulkumar Maurya,
Tonmoy Ghosh,
Chetan Paliwal,
Anupama Shrivastav,
Kaumeel Chokshi,
Imran Pancha,
Arup Ghosh,
Sandhya Mishra

Published: October 13, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109545

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