Modeling pyrite bioleaching in isothermal test columns with the HeapSim model

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 215-226

  Bouffard, Sylvie C ^a   Dixon, David G ^b  

^a Barrick Technology Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Column; Heap; Leaching; Modeling; Pyrite; Rate limiting steps

Indexed keywords

BIOLEACHING; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EARTH SCIENCES; LEACHING; MASS TRANSFER; ORES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PLASMAS; REACTION KINETICS; SULFUR; WATER;

BEST FITS; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; CELL NUMBERS; COLUMN; COLUMN TESTS; DATA SETS; HEAP; HEAP LEACHES; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS; ISOTHERMAL TESTS; LIMITING STEPS; MESOPHILIC; MODELING; OXYGEN GASSES; OXYGEN MASS TRANSFERS; PARTICLE KINETICS; PYRITE GRAINS; PYRITE OXIDATIONS; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; SULFIDE OXIDATIONS; TRIAL AND ERRORS; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

PYRITES;

EID: 57049187659     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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