Effectiveness of sulfate-reducing passive bioreactors for treating highly contaminated acid mine drainage: II. Metal removal mechanisms and potential mobility

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3545-3560

  Neculita, Carmen Mihaela ^a,c   Zagury, Gérald J ^a,c   Bussière, Bruno ^b,c  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c Environment and Mine Waste Management ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CONTAMINATION; DRAINAGE; EFFLUENTS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MIXTURES; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC MINERALS; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGES; ACIDIC LEACHING; BINDING MECHANISMS; BOTTOM LAYERS; CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS; CHEMICAL FORMS; COLUMN BIOREACTORS; DOWNWARD FLOWS; ELEMENTAL ANALYSES; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIMES; HYDROXIDE MINERALS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL MOBILITIES; METAL REMOVALS; METAL SULFIDES; MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL MOBILITIES; REACTIVE MIXTURES; RESIDUAL FRACTIONS; TREATED EFFLUENTS;

METAL RECOVERY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOREACTOR; ELEMENT MOBILITY; EXTRACTION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; IMMOBILIZATION; LEACHING; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RETENTION; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

EID: 56349163032     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.08.014     Document Type: Article

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