Bioleaching of chalcopyrite by a moderately thermophilic culture at different conditions and community dynamics of planktonic and attached populations

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 147-148, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-19

  Wang, Yuguang ^a   Zeng, Weimin ^a,b   Chen, Zhu ^a   Su, Lijun ^c   Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Wan, Lili ^a   Qiu, Guanzhou ^a,b   Chen, Xinhua ^d   Zhou, Hongbo ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CHANGSHA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Attached population; Chalcopyrite; ORP control; pH control; Planktonic population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900426370     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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