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Fig. 5 | Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts

Fig. 5

From: A sustainable bioprocess to produce bacterial cellulose (BC) using waste streams from wine distilleries and the biodiesel industry: evaluation of BC for adsorption of phenolic compounds, dyes and metals

Fig. 5

a Dephenolization potential (grey bars) and phenolics adsorption (white bars) of BC membranes at the end of each fermentation containing different concentrations of WDE (from 25 to 100%) in fermentation feedstock supplemented with crude glycerol: 20 g/L (), 30 g/L(), 45 g/L (), and 30 g/L pure glycerol (*); b removal (%) of the dye acid yellow 17 from synthetic wastewater (initial concentration of 20 mg/L) after 30 min of stirring with different amounts of BC and c removal (%) for Mn, Co, Ni, Zn and Cd from synthetic wastewater after 120 min of stirring with 1% BC

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