摘要
This research was conducted to investigate the biooxidation and copper dissolution from raw low-grade refractory copper sulphide ores located in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China using adapted Thiobacillus ferrooxidans bacteria.In order to accelerate the bioleach-ing rate,the adapted mixed bacteria and silver ion catalyst were tested in the leach columns at laboratory scale.The overall acid consumption was 4.3kg sulphuric acid per kg of dissolved copper and was linearly related to the percent copper dissolution.The calculated copper dissolution rates obey the Shrinking Core Model.The relative activation energy of the whole biooxidative leaching stages was calculated to be 48.58kJ/mol.
基金
Financial contributions from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.20776019 and 40573044)
the“A Hundred Talents Program”of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.0560051057)
the Key Program of Department of Education of Sichuan Government(No.2004A146)
the Applied Basic Research Program of Sichuan Government(Nos.05JY029-089-1,05JY029-089-2)are acknowl-edged.
