Biological leaching of nickel and cobalt from lateritic nickel ore of Sukinda mines

Smaranika Mohapatra; Chandan Sengupta; Bansi Dhar Nayak; Lala Bihari Sukla; Barada Kanta Mishra

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.26, No.1, 108-114, January, 2009

DOI10.1007/s11814-009-0017-x Export Citation

Biological leaching of nickel and cobalt from lateritic nickel ore of Sukinda mines

Smaranika Mohapatra^†, Chandan Sengupta¹, Bansi Dhar Nayak, Lala Bihari Sukla, and Barada Kanta Mishra

Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR), Bhubaneswar, Orissa-751013, India
¹Department of Botany, Kalyani University, West Bengal-741235, India

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Abstract.In the present study lateritic nickel ore was used for bacterial leaching using a mixed consortium of mesophilic acidophiles. The microorganisms were adapted to 1 gram nickel/L prior to leaching. For the experiments, lateritic ore in different forms such as raw, roasted, roasted ore presoaked in dilute sulphuric acid and palletized pretreated roasted (400 ℃ and 600 ℃) ore were taken. The leaching experiments were conducted in 9 K+ with 40 L capacity bioreactor using 10% (v/v) inoculum concentration at 10% (w/v) pulp density. The aeration was maintained at 2-3 L/min and the speed of agitator and temperature at 400-500 rpm and 35 ℃. The maximum extraction of nickel and cobalt was observed with pretreated ore (600 ℃) at 10% pulp density (77.23% and 73.22%) respectively within 31 days at pH 1.5 and least extraction in case of raw ore i.e., 9.47% nickel and 41.12% cobalt respectively.

Keywords:Lateritic Nickel Ore;Roasted Ore;Pretreated Ore;Nickel;Cobalt;Mesophilic;Acidophilic;40 L;Bioreactor

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[1] Valix M, Loon LO, Minerals Engineering, 16, 1193 (2002)

[2] Castro IM, Fietto JLR, Vieira RX, Tropia MJM, Campos LMM, Paniago EB, Brandao RL, Hydrometallurgy, 57, 39 (2000)

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[4] Tzeferis PG, Agatzinin-Leonardou S, Hydrometallurgy, 36, 345 (1994)

[5] Valix M, Tang JY, Malik R, Minerals Engineering, 14, 499-5-5 (2001)

[6] Valix M, Usai F, Malik V, Minerals Engineering, 14, 197 (2000)

[7] Valix M, Usai F, Malik V, Minerals Engineering,, 14, 205 (2000)

[8] Rossi G, Eds, Murr L, Torma A, Brierley J, New York: Academic Press, 297-318 (1979)

[9] Sukla LB, Kar RN, Panchanadikar VV, In: Recent trends in biotechnology, edited by Ayyana C, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co., New Delhi., 128-131 (1993)

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[11] Rawlings DE, (ed), Biomining, Springer, Berlin (1997)

[12] Bull AT, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 18(2), 137 (2001)

[13] Mishra M, Singh S, Das T, Kar RN, Rao KS, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 25(3), 531 (2008)

[14] Dew DE, Buren VC, McKewan K, Bowker C, In: Amils, Ballester R, A (eds). Biohydrometallurgy and the environment toward the mining of the 21st century, part A, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 229 (1999)

[15] Oolman T, Biohydrometallurgical technologies, Torma AE, Wiley JE, Lakshmanan VI Eds., The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 2, 401-415 (1993)

[16] Mohapatra S, Bohidar S, Pradhan N, Kar RN, Sukla LB, Hydrometallurgy, 85, 1 (2007)

[17] Sukla LB, Das RP, Transactions of the Institute of Mineral and Metallurgy. Sect. C, C53-55 (1986)

[18] Olanipekun EO, International Journal of Mineral Processing, 60, 9 (2000)

[19] Sukla LB, Das RP, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 40, 351 (1987)

[20] Drobner E, Huber H, Stetter KO, Applied Environmental Microbiology, 56, 2922 (1990)

[21] Ingledew WJ, Biochem. Biophys. Acta., 683, 89 (1982)

[22] Gomez JM, Caro I, Cantero D, Journal of Biotechnology, 48, 147 (1996)

[23] Mason LJ, Rice NM, Minerals Engineering, 15, 795 (2002)

[24] Li HM, Ke JJ, Hydrometallurgy, 61, 151 (2001)

[25] Malhotra S, Tankhiwale AS, Rajvaidya AS, Pandey RA, Bioresour. Technol., 85(3), 225 (2002)

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[28] Valix M, Tang JY, Cheung WH, Minerals Engineering, 14, 1629 (2001)

[29] Zeissink HE, Mineral Deposita., 4, 132 (1969)