Empleo del estropajo común (Luffa cylindrica) en la remoción de contaminantes.

It is in the interest of the engineering, the biotechnological development of techniques for the treatment of water for the removal of contaminants, taking advantage of the properties of the fibers of Luffa cylindrica (FLC). So exposed the arguments explained in several investigations carried out throughout the world in which describes a suggestive scene of valid reasons to consider the fiber of the sponge, as a material industrially promising and sustainable, suitable for the realization of removal treatments of contaminants and on the separation of substances immersed in arrays fluid. They also explain the use of fibers such as array immobilising to sustain microbial communities active implanted with specific purposes; even to understand the architecture and the mechanical properties of the FLc, explores its use as an aggregate in the obtaining of composite materials in the production of new substances and their capacity to retain moisture. Therefore, the approach that has been interested in the present work refers to the description of the description of the processes of adsorption and immobilization in which has been involved in the FLc doing a review of experiences research. At the same time, the reasons that have allowed describe techniques and that makes it possible to provide solutions to the problem of contaminant removal and treatment of water, are studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]