Study on Uranium Bioleaching by PHREEQC Simulation with Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans
Received:August 11, 2019   Revised:August 14, 2019   Accepted:August 16, 2019      Published Online:December 18, 2019
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DOI:Doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-7545.2020.01.010
KeyWord:uranium bioleaching; PHREEQC; Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans; reaction kinetics
     
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WANG Bing 东华理工大学水资源与环境工程学院;东华理工大学核资源与环境重点实验室
LUO Yue 东华理工大学水资源与环境工程学院;东华理工大学核资源与环境重点实验室
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Abstract:
      In order to simulate dynamic change of various components during uranium bioleaching, three reactions and four equations of microbial immersion uranium dynamics were embedded in PHREEQC geochemical database to fit experimental results. The results show that microbial immersion uranium dynamics database based on PHREEQC software can simulate chemical reaction kinetics of uranium bioleaching. The simulation results show that leaching of uranium is directly affected by concentration of iron ions in solution, and indirectly affected by number of microorganisms and concentration and oxidation of ferrous ions.
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