Sulfur oxidation activities of pure and mixed thermophiles and sulfur speciation in bioleaching of chalcopyrite

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3877-3882

  Zhu, Wei ^a   Xia, Jin lan ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Nie, Zhen yuan ^a   Zheng, Lei ^b   Ma, Chen yan ^b   Zhang, Rui yong ^a   Peng, An an ^a   Tang, Lu ^a   Qiu, Guan zhou ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Sulfur K edge XANES; Sulfur oxidation activity; Sulfur speciation; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

COVELLITE; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; JAROSITES; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; LEACHING RATES; MIXED CULTURES; PURE CULTURE; SULFOLOBUS METALLICUS; SULFUR K-EDGE; SULFUR OXIDATION; SULFUR OXIDATION ACTIVITY; SULFUR SPECIATION; THERMOPHILES; THERMOPHILIC ARCHAEA;

BIOLEACHING; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; MICROORGANISMS; ORE TREATMENT; OXIDATION; PASSIVATION;

SULFUR;

CHALCOPYRITE; COPPER; IRON; SULFIDE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OXIDATION; PYRITE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFUR; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ACIDIANUS BRIERLEYI; ACIDIANUS MANZAENSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLEACHING; CHEMICAL REACTION; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SULFOLOBUS METALLICUS; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; THERMOPHILE;

ARCHAEA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COPPER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE;

ACIDIANUS BRIERLEYI; ACIDIANUS MANZAENSIS; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; SULFOLOBUS METALLICUS;

EID: 78651481666     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.11.090     Document Type: Article

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