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中国有色金属学报(英文版)

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China

Vol. 21    No. 7    July 2011

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Relationship and effect of redox potential, jarosites and extracellular polymeric substances in bioleaching chalcopyrite by acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
YU Run-lan1, 2, ZHONG Dai-li1, 2, MIAO Lei1, 2, WU Fa-deng1,2, QIU Guan-zhou1, 2, GU Guo-hua1, 2

1. School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

Abstract:The changes of pH, redox potential, concentrations of soluble iron ions and Cu2+ with the time of  bioleaching chalcopyrite concentrates by acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans were investigated under the different conditions of initial total-iron amount as well as mole ratio of Fe(III) to Fe(II) in the solutions containing synthetic extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). When the solution potential is lower than 650 mV (vs SHE), the inhibition of jarosites to bioleaching chalcopyrite is not vital as EPS produced by bacteria can retard the contamination through flocculating jarosites even if concentration of Fe(III) ions is up to 20 g/L but increases with increasing the concentration of Fe(III) ions; jarosites formed by bio-oxidized Fe3+ ions are more easy to adhere to outside surface of EPS space on chalcopyrite; the EPS layer with jarosites acts as a weak diffusion barrier to further rapidly create a high redox potential of more than 650 mV by bio-oxidizing Fe2+ ions inside and outside EPS space into Fe3+ ions, resulting in a rapid deterioration of ion diffusion performance of the EPS layer to inhibit bioleaching chalcopyrite severely and irreversibly.

 

Key words: extracellular polymeric substances; chalcopyrite; bioleaching; jarosites; redox potential

ISSN 1004-0609
CN 43-1238/TG
CODEN: ZYJXFK

ISSN 1003-6326
CN 43-1239/TG
CODEN: TNMCEW

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