Aplicación de un material vitrocerámico a la biorremediación de metales pesados

Abstract

In this study, a glassceramic material with hydroxyapatite phase was manufactured from industrial and urban wastes. On this material, biofilms from the microorganisms usually appearing in wastewater were developed. Batch assays were made using different heavy metals to analyze glassceramic material capacity to retain these elements from an aqueous medium in biofilm presence and absence. The results suggest that microorganisms are implicated in the removing of heavy metals from the aqueous medium and open the possibility to use the glassceramic material in a bioremediation process.