Integrated Sulfate Reduction and Biosorption Process for the Treatment of Mine Drainages
| Autor: | Davor Cotoras, Pabla Viedma, Cristian Hurtado |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Materials science
0208 environmental biotechnology Biosorption 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Condensed Matter Physics Pulp and paper industry 01 natural sciences Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics 020801 environmental engineering Reduction (complexity) chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Scientific method General Materials Science Sulfate 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Solid State Phenomena. 262:582-586 |
| ISSN: | 1662-9779 |
| DOI: | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.262.582 |
| Popis: | Sulfate is a pollutant present in the mining waste water and acid mine drainage. High levels of sulfate can generate important environmental problems. One of the alternatives proposed for the treatment of water with high levels of sulfate is the use of sulfate-reducing microorganisms. This work describes the synergistic combination of a treatment system for the removal of metals by biosorption with the strain Bacillus sp. NRRL-B-30881 to reduce the inhibiting concentration of metals in waters, followed by a new process of sulfate removal that uses a halotolerant sulfate-reducing microbial consortium. The results show that the sulfate reducing consortium can be cultured and is able to reduce the sulfate concentration using cheaper complex organic substrates like spirulina, cellulose and industrial starch. The sulfate reducing consortium was cultured on a bioreactor with Celite R-635, as support material. Using this bioreactor it was possible to reduce the sulfate concentration in the culture medium in batch or semi-continuous operation. An acid mine drainage was pretreated by lime and treated by biosortion in order to increase the pH and reduce the heavy metals concentration. Subsequently the remaining sulfate was removed by the developed process. This integrated biological process represents a more economical alternative for the removal of metal by biosortion and the removal of sulfate using a sulfate reducing consortium. |
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