Technical and economical assessment and extrapolation of a 200-dm 3 pilot bioreactor for reduction of sulphate and metals in acid mine waters

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 187, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 15-29

  Touze, S ^a   Battaglia Brunet, F ^a   Ignatiadis, I ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Acid mine water; Bioreactor; Desulfomicrobium norvegicum; Economic assessment; Fixed bed column bioreactor; Metal sulphide precipitation; Process scale up; Sulphate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRAPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ACID MINE WATER; DESULFOMICROBIUM NORVEGICUM; ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT; FIXED-BED COLUMN BIOREACTOR; METAL SULPHIDE PRECIPITATION; PROCESS SCALE UP; SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

BIOREACTORS;

ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; METAL; SULFATE; WATER;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRAPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITY; BIOREACTOR; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; NEUTRALIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REDUCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; SULFATE; WASTE TREATMENT;

ACID PRECIPITATION; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DESULFOMICROBIUM; ECONOMICS; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOMICROBIUM NORVEGICUM;

EID: 36749030691     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-007-9490-1     Document Type: Article

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