Palladium and gold removal and recovery from precious metal solutions and electronic scrap leachates by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans

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• 作者：Neil J. Creamer ; Victoria S. Baxter-Plant ; John Henderson ; M. Potter and Lynne E. Macaskie
• 关键词：Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ; Gold recovery ; Palladium recovery ; WEEE scrap
• 刊名：Biotechnology Letters
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：September, 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：28
• 期：18
• 页码：1475-1484
• 全文大小：325 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Microbiology
  Biotechnology
  Applied Microbiology
  Biochemistry
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6776

文摘

Biomass of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans was used to recover Au(III) as Au(0) from test solutions and from waste electronic scrap leachate. Au(0) was precipitated extracellularly by a different mechanism from the biodeposition of Pd(0). The presence of Cu2+ (∼2000 mg/l) in the leachate inhibited the hydrogenase-mediated removal of Pd(II) but pre-palladisation of the cells in the absence of added Cu2+ facilitated removal of Pd(II) from the leachate and more than 95% of the Pd(II) was removed autocatalytically from a test solution supplemented with Cu(II) and Pd(II). Metal recovery was demonstrated in a gas-lift electrobioreactor with electrochemically generated hydrogen, followed by precipitation of recovered metal under gravity. A 3-stage bioseparation process for the recovery of Au(III), Pd(II) and Cu(II) is proposed.