Bearing in mind the metal rich composition of printed circuit boards (PCBs), this material represents a secondary source valuable metals and offers an entrepreneurial opportunity sales market. Based on ability microorganisms to regenerate produce chemical oxidants that are responsible for leaching, bioleaching has become efficient affordable alternative conventional recycling technologies, alth...

The increased rate of solubilization of sulfide ores of iron and copper caused by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans has been attributed either to direct action of the bacteria on the ore or to an indirect effect whereby the ferric ion is presumed to oxidize the ore and is returned to the active, oxidized state by the iron-oxidizing bacteria. Attempts by M. P. Silverman (3) to demonstrate that microbial...

the oxidation of ferrous iron (fe2+) in solution using acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans has industrial applications exclusively in the regeneration of ferric iron (fe3+) as an oxidizing agent for the removal of hydrogen sulfide from waste gases, desulfurization of coal, leaching of non-ferrous metallic sulfides and treatment of acid mine drainage. the aim of this investigation was to increase the...

bioleaching of spent refinery processing catalysts using adapted indigenous strains ofacidithiobacillus ferrooxidans to recover ni and mo, and the separation of ni from bioleaching liquor usingiron magnetic nanoparticles were optimized in this study. bioleaching optimization was performed usingcentral composite design (ccd) method to optimize temperature (32 to 38oc), initial ph (1.5 to 2), par...

in this study, effects of solid concentration, temperature, and initial fe2+ concentration on bioleaching of sulfide mineral (chalcopyrite) obtained from sarcheshmeh copper mine in the region of kerman located in the south of iran were investigated. a mesophilic iron oxidizing bacterium, acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans has been isolated from a typical chalcopyrite copper concentrate of the menti...