The invention discloses a method for treating heavy
metal wastewater. The method comprises the following steps: (1) immobilizing mixed
bacteria of
pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes and
saccharomyces cerevisiae, collected after mixed
fermentation culture, into immobilized
cell spheres, wherein the appearances of the immobilized
cell spheres are spherical, and the interiors of the immobilized
cell spheres are of a porous mesh structure; (2) adding a
rhizopus oryzae
spore suspension liquid into
starch bearing material
hydrolysate as a culture medium at the pH of 3-6, carrying out shake cultivation for 24-48 hours, filtering to collect
rhizopus oryzae
mycelium spheres with the diameters of 50-100 microns; (3) filling a biological adsorber with the immobilized cell spheres and the
rhizopus oryzae
mycelium spheres, wherein the biological adsorber is formed by virtue of series connection of multiple adsorption columns; and (4) after regulating the initial heavy
metal ion concentration of heavy
metal wastewater to be less than or equal to 800mg / L and the pH value to be 5-7, enabling heavy metal
wastewater to flow through the biological adsorber, wherein the
hydraulic retention time in each adsorption column is 0.5h-1h. According to the method, different
heavy metals (Cd<2+>, Hg<2+>, Cu<2+>, Zn<2+>, Ni<2+>, Ag<2+> and Pb<2+>) can be well adsorbed by virtue of different types of microbial live
bacteria under different adsorption mechanisms.