Bioleaching of gold and copper from waste mobile phone PCBs by using a cyanogenic bacterium

Chi, Tran D and Lee, Jae-chun and Pandey, B D and Yoo, Kyoungkeun and Jeong, Jinki (2011) Bioleaching of gold and copper from waste mobile phone PCBs by using a cyanogenic bacterium. Minerals Engineering, 24 . pp. 1219-1222.

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Abstract

Chromobacterium violaceum (C. violaceum), a cyanide generating bacterium has been used to leach out gold and copper from the waste mobile phone printed circuit boards (PCBs) containing 34.5% Cu and 0.025% Au in YP (yeast extract and polypeptone with glycine) medium. The bioleaching was carried out in an incubator shaker (150 rpm) at 30 C and 15 g/L pulp density in the pH range 8–11. Dissolution of gold and copper increased from 7.78% (0.225 ppm) to 10.8% (0.46 ppm) and 4.9% (419 ppm) to 11.4% (879 ppm) in 8 days with increase in pH from 8 to 11 and 8 to 10 respectively. Supplementing oxygen with 0.004% (v/v) H2O2 increased the copper leaching to 24.6% (1743 ppm) at pH 10 in 8 days whereas improvement in gold leaching was insignificant with the recovery of 11.31% Au at pH 11.0. The waste PCBs can thus be recycled in environmental friendly manner.

Item Type:Article
Official URL/DOI:doi:10.1016/j.mineng.2011.05.009
Uncontrolled Keywords:Bioleaching; Chromobacterium violaceum; Waste PCBs; Leaching of gold and copper
Divisions:Metal Extraction and Forming
ID Code:3686
Deposited By:Dr. A K Sahu
Deposited On:03 Aug 2011 10:30
Last Modified:21 Nov 2011 12:05
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