Recovery of copper from a surface altered chalcopyrite contained ball mill spillage through bio-hydrometallurgical route

Sandeep Panda; Pradeep Chandra Rout; Chinmaya Kumar Sarangi; Srabani Mishra; Nilotpala Pradhan; Umaballav Mohapatra; Tondepu Subbaiah; Lala Behari Sukla; Barada Kanta Mishra

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.31, No.3, 452-460, March, 2014

DOI10.1007/s11814-013-0261-y Export Citation

Recovery of copper from a surface altered chalcopyrite contained ball mill spillage through bio-hydrometallurgical route

Sandeep Panda^{1, 2, †}, Pradeep Chandra Rout^{3, 4}, Chinmaya Kumar Sarangi⁴, Srabani Mishra^{1, 3}, Nilotpala Pradhan¹, Umaballav Mohapatra², Tondepu Subbaiah⁴, Lala Behari Sukla¹, and Barada Kanta Mishra^{5, 3}

¹Bioresources Engineering Department, CSIR - Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar-751013, India
²North Orissa University (NOU), Baripada-757003, Orissa, India
³Academy of Scientific and Innovation, Research, CSIR - Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar-751013, India
⁴Hydro and Electrometallurgy Department, CSIR - Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar-751013, India
⁵Bioresources Engineering Department, Hydro and Electrometallurgy Department, CSIR - Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar-751013, India

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Bioleaching studies for chalcopyrite contained ball mill spillages are very scarce in the literature. We developed a process flow sheet for the recovery of copper metal from surface activated (600 ℃, 15 min) ball mill spillage through bio-hydrometallurgical processing route. Bioleaching of the activated sample using a mixed meso-acidophilic bacterial consortium predominantly A. ferrooxidans strains was found to be effective at a lixiviant flow rate of 1.5 L/h, enabling a maximum 72.36% copper recovery in 20 days. Mineralogical as well as morphological changes over the sample surface were seen to trigger the bioleaching efficiency of meso-acidophiles, thereby contributing towards an enhanced copper recovery from the ball mill spillage. The bio-leach liquor containing 1.84 g/L Cu was purified through solvent extraction using LIX 84I in kerosene prior to the recovery of copper metal by electrowinning. Purity of the copper produced through this process was 99.99%.

Keywords:Spillage;Thermal Activation;Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans;BACFOX;Solvent Extraction;Electrowinning

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Panda S, Sarangi CK, Pradhan N, Subbaiah T, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Bhatoa GL, Prasad MSR, Ray SK, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 26, 781 (2012)
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[Referenced By]

[1] Wang S, J. Microbiol., 57, 48 (2005)

[2] Olubambi PA, Ndlovu S, Potgieter JH, Borode JO, Hydrometallurgy, 86, 96 (2007)

[3] Panda S, Sarangi CK, Pradhan N, Subbaiah T, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Bhatoa GL, Prasad MSR, Ray SK, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 26, 781 (2012)

[4] Panda S, Sanjay K, Sukla LB, Pradhan N, Subbaiah T, Mishra BK, Prasad MSR, Ray SK, Hydrometallurgy, 125-126, 157 (2012)

[5] Panda S, Parhi PK, Pradhan N, Mohapatra UB, Sukla LB, Park KH, Hydrometallurgy, 121-124, 116 (2012)

[6] Renman R, Xingyu L, Gang Z, Jinghe C, Jiankang W, Dianzuo W, Hydrometallurgy, 108, 130 (2011)

[7] Rawlings DE, Johnson BD Eds., Biomining, Springer (2007)

[8] Crundwell FK, Hydrometallurgy, 21, 155 (1988)

[9] Habashi F, McGraw-Hill, New York (1978)

[10] Watling HR, Hydrometallurgy, 84, 81 (2006)

[11] Qiu M, Xiong S, Zhang W, Wang G, Min. Eng., 18, 987 (2005)

[12] Valdes J, Pedroso I, Quatrini R, Dodson RJ, Tettelin H, Blake R, Eisen JA, Holmes DS, BMC Genomics, 9, 597 (2008)

[13] Baba AA, Adekola FA, Atata RF, Ahmed RN, Panda S, Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China, 21, 2535 (2011)

[14] Acar S, Brierley JA, Wan RY, Hydrometallurgy, 77, 239 (2005)

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

[16] Rao KS, Mishra A, Pradhan D, Chaudhury GR, Mohapatra BK, Das T, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 25(3), 524 (2008)

[17] Sukla LB, Nathsarma KC, Mahanta JR, Singh S, Behera S, Rao KS, Subbaiah T, Mishra BK, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 26(6), 1668 (2009)

[18] Panda S, Parhi PK, Nayak BD, Pradhan N, Mohapatra UB, Sukla LB, Bioresour. Technol., 130, 332 (2013)

[19] Norgate T, Jahanshahi S, Min. Eng., 23, 65 (2010)

[20] Mohapatra S, Sengupta C, Nayak BD, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 25(5), 1070 (2008)

[21] Panda S, Panda SK, Nayak BD, Rao DS, Pradhan N, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Proceedings of the XI international seminar on mineral processing technology, NML Jamshedpur, India, 955 (2010)

[22] Panda S, Pradhan N, Mohapatra UB, Panda SK, Rath SS, Nayak BD, Rao DS, Sukla LB, Mishra BK, Front. Env. Sci. Eng., 7, 281 (2013)

[23] Silverman MP, Lundgren DG, J. Bacteriol., 77, 642 (1959)

[24] Modaka JM, Natarajan KA, Mukhopadhyay S, Hydrometallurgy, 42, 51 (1996)

[25] Sand W, Gehrke T, Jozsa PG, Schippers A, Hydrometallurgy, 59, 159 (2001)

[26] Web reference: http://www.minweb.co.uk/quartz/alphaquartz.html, Accessed on 03.04.2013.