A New Approach for Evaluating Wastes: Bioleaching

Year 2007, Volume: 35 Issue: 1, 17 - 24, 01.01.2007

Ömer Şimşek Münevver Arısoy

Abstract

IntroductionThe waste problem has risen together with rapidly increasing world population and improvement at industry by developing technology. For this reason evaluating the wastes by recovering the valuable metals or detoxifying these materials for environmentally safe deposition are the main targets of waste management. To date at the scope of waste management many systems have been tested. However, in the recent years, it has been shown that bioleaching is a novel promising technology for recovering some minerals from municipal and industrial wastes Bajirova and Velkova, 2001; Bosecker, 2001; Soliso et al., 2002; Picher et al., 2002; Aung and Ting, 2005; Ishigaki et al., 2005; Santhiya and Ting, 2005

Keywords

Bioleaching, Metal recovery, Waste

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