Bioleaching of Basic Metals from Electronic Waste PCBs
Volume 1 - Issue 2
Mahdokht Arshadi and Soheila Yaghmaei*
- Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Received: January 13, 2020 Published: January 24, 2020
Corresponding author: Soheila Yaghmaei, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
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Abstract
E-waste is an emerging problem that has to be attending worldwide. The best way for E-waste management is recycling.
Bioleaching is a novel method to extract metals from E-waste. In this research, bioleaching of Cu and Ni from an E-waste sample was
examined using acidophil microorganisms. Different kinds of E-waste were purchased; the sample size reduced to lower than 100
microns. Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans was adapted to the 15 g/l of the E-waste sample. Eh, pH, bacterial count, and metal recovery
were followed in a period of 25 days. By using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) identified Cu
and Ni were recovered respectively 99% on 11th day and 98% on 14th day. The results of field emission scanning electron microscope
(FE-SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), and X-ray diffraction before and after bioleaching emphasize the great
efficiencyofbioleaching.
Keywords: Bioleaching; E-waste; basic metals; FE-SEM; XRD; FTIR
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