Column bioleaching of uranium embedded in granite porphyry by a mesophilic acidophilic consortium

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4697-4702

  Qiu, Guanzhou ^a,b   Li, Qian ^a,b   Yu, Runlan ^a,b   Sun, Zhanxue ^c   Liu, Yajie ^c   Chen, Miao ^d   Yin, Huaqun ^a,b   Zhang, Yage ^c   Liang, Yili ^a,b   Xu, Lingling ^c   Sun, Limin ^c   Liu, Xueduan ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial community analysis; Column leaching; Mesophilic acidophiles; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COLUMN LEACHING; COLUMN REACTORS; DOMINANT SPECIES; INDIRECT LEACHING; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM; MESOPHILIC; RIBOSOMAL DNA; URANIUM EXTRACTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLEACHING; GRANITE; URANIUM;

URANIUM MINES;

URANIUM;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDOPHILY; BIOREACTOR; GRANITE; LEACHING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PORPHYRY; SAMPLING; URANIUM;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; AMPLIFIED RIBOSOMAL DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLEACHING; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHINA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; GRANITE; LEACHING; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ADSORPTION; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILICON DIOXIDE; URANIUM;

CHINA;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDOPHILES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM;

EID: 79951947265     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.01.038     Document Type: Article

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