Microbial processing of metal sulfides / ed. by Donati E., Sand W. - Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007. - vi, 314 p. - ISBN 978-1-4020-5588  Место хранения:   040 | Институт биофизики СО РАН | Красноярск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

List of Contributors .......................................... xii Preface ........................................................ xi Section I - Fundamentals, microorganisms and mechanisms .......................................... 1 1. Microorganisms involved in bioleaching and nucleic acid-based molecular methods for their identification and quantification .......................................... 3 Axel Schippers 2. Mechanisms and biochemical fundamentals of bacterial metal sulfide oxidation .......................... 35 Thore Rohwerder and Wolfgang Sand 3. Electrochemical techniques used to study bacterial-metal sulfides interactions in acidic environments ........................................ 59 Denise Bevilaqua, Heloisa A. Acciari, Assis V. Benedetti and Oswaldo Garcia 4. Catalytic role of silver and other ions on the mechanism of chemical and biological leaching .............. 77 Antonio Ballester, Maria Luisa Blázquez, Felisa González and Jesus A. Muñoz 5. Recovery of zinc, nickel, cobalt and other metals by bioleaching ........................................... 103 Marisa Viera, Cristina Pogliani, Edgardo Donati 6. Bioleaching of metals in neutral and slightly alkaline environment ...................................... 121 Aleksandra Skłodowska, Renata Matlakowska Section II - Bioreactors and Bioheaps ......................... 131 7. Bioleaching of sulfide minerals in continuous stirred tanks ............................................. 133 Dominique Henri Roger Morin 8. Bioreactor design fundamentals and their application to gold mining ................................ 151 Fernando Acevedo and Juan Carlos Gentina 9. Airlift reactors: characterization and applications in biohydrometallurgy ........................ 169 Alejandra Giaveno, Laura Lavalle, Patricia Chiacchiarini and Edgardo Donati 10. Principles, mechanisms and dynamics of chalcocite heap bioleaching .............................. 193 Jochen Petersen and David G. Dixon Section III - Genetics and Molecular Biology .................. 219 11. The use of bioinformatics and genome biology to advance our understanding of bioleaching microorganisms ........................................... 221 Raquel Quatrini, Jorge Valdés, Eugenia Jedlicki and David S. Holmes 12. Proteomics and metaproteomics applied to biomining microorganisms ................................. 241 Carlos A. Jerez 13. Cell-cell communication in bacteria: A promising new approach to improve bioleaching efficiency? .......... 253 Susana Valenzuela, Alvaro Banderas, Carlos A. Jerez and Nicolas Guiliani Section IV - Other Applications ............................... 265 14. Bioflotation and bioflocculation of relevance to minerals bioprocessing ................................ 267 K. Hanumantha Rao and S. Suhramanian 15. Hydrogen sulfide removal from gaseous effluents .......... 287 José Manuel Gómez and Domingo Cantero 14. Index .................................................... 311