How can we use living bacteria to recover metals from ground water?
Bacteria can utilize small amounts of metal for their growth, So, how can we make the mass balance?
Example of known systematic conditions:
In fluent metal conc. :known
Effluent metal conc. : Known
Recovery of metal by bacteria : From dry mass analyzing we can know
But how much of the metal is utilized for the bacterial? ( how to calculate)
Kindly refer http://sphinx.murdoch.edu.au/units/extern/BIO301/teach/download/student%20websites%202009/02%20Bioleaching/Bioleaching%20Website%20Final_files/Page387.htm
Gulsin Arslan, thank you for replying, but usage of membrane treatment system is expensive.So, i wanna use the bacteria and recover the metals.
In bioleaching, acidiophilic bacteria spp. mobilizes metals into soluble salts that can be recovered by electrophoresis, in some cases, this process can also leave some insoluble metal compounds in purer forms by solubilising and removing the soluble metal compounds.
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