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Selective adsorption of palladium and platinum from secondary wastewater using Escherichia coli BL21 and Providencia vermicola

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It is important to recover precious metals from secondary wastewater because of their low crustal abundance. The selective adsorption of palladium (Pd) and platinum (Pt) ions from secondary wastewater, which contains a large amount aluminium and sodium ions, was investigated using Escherichia coli BL21 (BL21), genetically modified E. coli BL21 (EC20) and Providencia vermicola (P. V.). The results demonstrated that P.V., BL21 and EC20 cells took 95.9%, 88.2% and 97.5% of Pd ions, and 64.8%, 93.2% and 100% of Pt ions form industrial wastewater, respectively. All three bacterial biomass could be reused for Pd adsorption with a second adsorption efficiency of > 85%, specifically, the EC20 cells could absorb 93.8% of Pd ions from wastewater. SEM–EDS and XPS analyses confirmed the occurrence of Pd and Pt on the surface of wastewater-absorbed biomass. The shift in FTIR spectrum implied that functional groups, such as hydroxyl, amino, carboxyl and phosphate groups, were involved in wastewater adsorption.

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Abbreviations

BL21 cells:

Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) cells

EC20 cells:

E. coli BL21 cells with EC20 protein displayed

P.V. cells:

Providencia vermicola

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The authors acknowledge the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that have improved the presentation of this work. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51871250, 51504106), the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Platinum Metals (SKL-SPM-201809), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China (SKYAM005-2016), the Yunnan Science and Technology Plan Project of China (2015FB204, 2016BA006,2017FA030), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University (2017zzts080, 2018zzts808), GDAS’ Special Project of Science and Technology Development (2017GDASCX-0401).

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  1. School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, People’s Republic of China

    Ling Tan, Haiyan Wu, Hang Xu, Yong Xiao, Guanzhou Qiu, Xinxing Liu & Jianping Xie

  2. Key Laboratory of Biohydrometallurgy, Ministry of Education, Changsha, 410083, People’s Republic of China

    Ling Tan, Haiyan Wu, Hang Xu, Yong Xiao, Guanzhou Qiu, Xinxing Liu & Jianping Xie

  3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Platinum Metals, Kunming Institute of Precious Metals, Kunming, 650106, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

    Hao Cui & Haigang Dong

  4. State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou, 510070, People’s Republic of China

    Meiying Xu

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Tan, L., Wu, H., Cui, H. et al. Selective adsorption of palladium and platinum from secondary wastewater using Escherichia coli BL21 and Providencia vermicola. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 43, 1885–1897 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-020-02378-6

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