%0 Journal Article %T Decolourization of textile dye effluent by non-viable biomass of Aspergillus fumigatus %A Kalaiarasi %A K. %A Lavanya %A A. %A Amsamani %A S. %A Bagyalakshmi %A G. %J Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology %D 2012 %I Tecpar %R 10.1590/S1516-89132012000300019 %X the aim of this work was to study the decolourization of textile dye effluent by non-viable biomass of aspergillus fumigates. the dried non-viable fungal biomass exhibited maximum dye removal at ph 7.0 with temperature of 30oc and 3 g/l (w/v) biomass concentration, after 24 h contact time. the results showed that the non-viable biomass possessed high efficiency for dye removal from textile effluent. %K aspergillus fumigatus %K decolourization %K textile effluent. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-89132012000300019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en