en مديريت خدمات بهداشتي و درماني Management of health care services پژوهشي Original Article <p>Background and purpose: Cadmium is hazardous and non-biodegradable material entering the food chain. In this paper, the removal of cadmium from aqueous solutions by sunflower powder (the natural biosorbent) was investigated. Materials and Methods: The experiments were performed in a batch system. The effect of parameters such as contact time, pH, cadmium concentration and adsorbent dose were evaluated. Results: The results showed that increasing of pH, contact time and adsorbent dose caused increasing efficiency of removal cadmium from aqueous solutions. The results were modeled using biosorption kinetics and a neural network with four hidden neurons, including bias which was able to predict the concentration dependency of data very accurately. Conclusion: On the basis of the results, could be used from sunflower residues as a cost and efficient biosorbent for treatment of wastewater with Cadmium. The prediction of the artificial neural network model fit the experimental data very precisely.</p> Sunflower powder,Aqueous Two Phase, Biosorption,Cadmium, Biokinetics, Neural Network 28 34 http://jhs.mazums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-343-12&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Abdol Iman Amouei 10031947532846003874 10031947532846003874 No Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Ali Akbar Amooey aamooey@umz.ac.ir 10031947532846003875 10031947532846003875 Yes Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran Fatemeh Asgharzadeh 10031947532846003876 10031947532846003876 No Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran