Zeolites have a negative charge on their surface; preferentially attract cations and scarcely anions such as and PO which are components of fertilizers. To modify the surface characteristics of the natural clinoptilolite type zeolite, sieved on 14 mesh, it was washed several times with distilled water, dried and placed in colloidal suspension of ferric hydroxide Fe(OH)3 for 24h. The zeolite was washed with distilled water and then it dried at 60°C for 2h. To evaluate the adsorption capacity of natural and modified zeolite, the adsorption isotherm was determined at different phosphate concentrations.The evaluation of the phosphate concentration before and after the adsorption process was determined by spectrophotometry, a method that is based on the formation of the blue ammonium phosphomolybdate complex (λmax=650nm), by reaction of a reducing solution of ammonium molybdate and ascorbic...

Bioremediation is one of the methods to eliminate metallic pollutants from leach mining. Its use provide technical and economical adventages compared to ionic exchange or membranes. In bioacumulation, a type of bioremediation, metal ions are incorporated into microorganism cells, its inconvenient is necessity to prepare cultures media and special conditions to mantain biomass. On the other hand, biosorption uses natural polymers, called biopolymers; functional features of these macromolecules give them metallic adsorption capacity in predetermined conditions; some of them are algae derivatives like alginates, poliamides from hair, colagen from bond tissues or chitin and chitosan extracted from crustaceous shells. Specially chitosan could be obtained from chitin, second most abundant biopolymer in nature next to cellulose, its main source is food industry of prown, shrimp, crab and simila...

Bioremediation is one of the methods to eliminate metallic pollutants from leach mining. Its use provide technical and economical adventages compared to ionic exchange or membranes. In bioacumulation, a type of bioremediation, metal ions are incorporated into microorganism cells, its inconvenient is necessity to prepare cultures media and special conditions to mantain biomass. On the other hand, biosorption uses natural polymers, called biopolymers; functional features of these macromolecules give them metallic adsorption capacity in predetermined conditions; some of them are algae derivatives like alginates, poliamides from hair, colagen from bond tissues or chitin and chitosan extracted from crustaceous shells. Specially chitosan could be obtained from chitin, second most abundant biopolymer in nature next to cellulose, its main source is food industry of prown, shrimp, crab and simila...