The development of a laboratory method for quantifying the bioelimination of anionic, water soluble dyes by a biomass

A simple and rapid laboratory-based method has been developed to enable measurement of the removal of anionic, water soluble dyestuffs from a typical wastewater treatment works by adsorption onto a biomass. The proposed screening test is robust and gives results that are highly reproducible and forms the basis of a correlation between molecular structure and colour bioelimination. A detailed description of the new method and a comparison with some previous methods is given.