Decolourization of Selected Procion Dye Using Fungi, Acremonium Chrysogenum a Comparison with Physical Adsorbents.

ABSTRACT

Azo dyes, based on aromatic amines, may contain these amines as impurities introduced during the manufacturing process. Aromatic amines may also be present as a result of thermal or photochemical degradation of azo dyes. The more stable derivatives contain two aryl groups. As a consequence of п-delocalization, aryl azo compounds have vivid colors, especially reds, oranges, and yellows. Therefore, they are used as dyes, and are commonly known as azo dyes, an example of which is Disperse Orange. Some azo compounds, eg. methyl orange, are used as acid-base indicators due to the different colors of their acid and salt forms. The development of azo dyes was an important step in the development of the chemi azo colorants range in shade from greenish yellow to orange, red, violet and brown. The colours depend largely on the chemical constitution, whereas different shades rather depend on the physical properties. However, the important disadvantage limiting their commercial application is that most of them are red and none are green. The inoculum was prepared by adding 10ml of saline to the culture tube, which contain the Acremoniumchrysogenum. The present study designed to study the degradation of common laboratory dyes using fungi, acremonium chrysogenum. The dye selected was procion red. The selected dye procion red can be toxic in its secondary reactive form so there is a great need of them to be removed from the environment.