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Biological treatment of solid waste materials from copper and steel industry

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The aim of this work was to evaluate the feasibility of bioleaching for the solubilisation of metals from solid waste streams and by-products of copper and steel industries. The leaching experiments were carried out in shake flasks in mineral salts media inoculated with iron and sulphur oxidising acidophiles at 25°C. The experiments tested the effects of the inoculum, pH, supplemental ferrous iron and sulphur, sodium chloride, and the type of waste material. Solubilisation of metals was mainly achieved through acid attack due to the formation of sulphuric acid by sulphur oxidising bacteria. Addition of ferrous iron and chloride ions did not enhance metal solubilisation.

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  1. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland

    E. A. Vestola & E. S. A. Merta

  2. CSIRO Land and Water, 5, Wembley, Western Australia, 6913, Australia

    E. A. Vestola, J. J. Plumb & A. H. Kaksonen

  3. Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, 541, FI-33101, Tampere, Finland

    M. K. Kuusenaho, H. M. Närhi, O. H. Tuovinen & J A. Puhakka

  4. Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    O. H. Tuovinen

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  1. Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Bundesanstalt für, Unter den Eichen 87, Berlin, 12205, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Böllinghaus

  2. Materialforschung und -prüfung, BAM Bundesanstalt für, Unter den Eichen 87, Berlin, 12205, Germany

    Jürgen Lexow

  3. NIMS, Tsukuba, 300-8577, Japan

    Teruo Kishi

  4. National Institute for Material Science, Sengen Tsukuba-city 1-2-1, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan

    Masaki Kitagawa

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Vestola, E.A. et al. (2012). Biological treatment of solid waste materials from copper and steel industry. In: Böllinghaus, T., Lexow, J., Kishi, T., Kitagawa, M. (eds) Materials Challenges and Testing for Supply of Energy and Resources. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23348-7_26

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