Table 7.

Effect of different biosorbent dosages (%) on heavy metals removal process efficiency (%) by live biomass of Aspergillus sp. AHM69 and Penicillium sp. AHM96 after 180 min contact time.

Biosorbent	Heavy metal	Heavy metal conc. (mg/L)	Biosorption efficiency (%) at various biosorbent dosages (%)
			0.05	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.5	1.0
Aspergillus sp. AHM69	Fe3+	400	20.00	30.83	51.32	82.20	100.0	100.0	100.0
		500	31.76	43.00	60.18	78.00	100.0	100.0	100.0
		1000	29.98	34.16	44.65	63.85	87.98	100.0	100.0
	Co2+	400	10.21	19.62	30.48	59.70	86.19	86.19	86.19
		500	10.00	19.00	30.40	50.24	73.11	73.11	73.11
		1000	12.00	15.16	22.14	27.93	30.24	34.18	40.04
Penicillium sp. AHM96	Fe3+	400	18.86	29.91	47.50	58.30	79.42	80.95	91.00
		500	17.90	23.16	40.90	50.90	69.50	74.22	80.50
		1000	12.43	20.28	22.16	30.00	35.26	39.13	45.96
	Co2+	400	39.89	50.60	70.29	90.10	100.0	100.0	100.0
		500	30.66	38.95	56.50	80.54	100.0	100.0	100.0
		1000	17.90	29.16	48.16	75.28	90.16	100.0	100.0