Experimental Study on the Adsorption of MB on Novel Photocatalyst Yeast/ZnS Hybrid Microspheres

Employing yeast cells as carriers,a novel cell-loaded photocatalyst yeast/ZnS (YC/ZnS) was successfully synthesized. The adsorption performance of methylene blue on the YC/ZnS microspheres was studied. Experimental results showed that the optimized adsorption conditions were 23°C,pH7 and the YC/ZnS dosage 4.5g/L. Under these conditions,the adsorption capacity of YC/ZnS could reach 471.2μg/g. Isotherm modeling revealed that Freundlich equations described well the adsorption of methylene blue onto YC/ZnS.