@article { author = {Soleimanifar, Hanieh and Doulati Ardejani, Faramarz and Marandi, Reza}, title = {Bio-Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage in the Sarcheshmeh Porphyry Copper Mine by Fungi: Batch and Fixed Bed Process}, journal = {International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering}, volume = {46}, number = {1}, pages = {87-103}, year = {2012}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2345-6930}, eissn = {2345-6949}, doi = {10.22059/ijmge.2012.51321}, abstract = {Acid mine drainage (AMD) containing high concentrations of iron and sulphate, low pH and variableconcentrations of heavy metals leads to many environmental problems. The concentrations of Cu and Mnare high in the AMD of the Sarcheshmeh porphyry copper mine, Kerman province, south of Iran. In thisstudy, the bio-remediation of Cu and Mn ions from acid mine drainage was investigated using two nativefungi called Aspergillus niger and Phanerochaete chrysosporium which were extracted from the soil andsediment samples of the Shour River at the Sarcheshmeh mine. The live fungi was first harvested andthen killed by boiling in 0.5 N NaOH solution. The biomass was finally dried at 60 C for 24 h andpowdered. The optimum biosorption parameters including pH, temperature, the amount of biosorbent andcontact time were determined in a batch system. The optimum pH varied between 5 and 6. It was foundthat the biosorption process increased with an increase in temperature and the amount of biosorbent.Biosorption data were attempted by Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models and showed a good match.Kinetic studies were also carried out in the present study. The results show that the second-order kineticsmodel fits well the experimental data. The biosorption experiments were further investigated with acontinuous system to compare the biosorption capacities of two systems. The results show thatbiosorption process using a continuous system increases efficiency up to 99%. A desorption process waseventually performed in order to recover Copper and Manganese ions. This process was successful andfungi could be used again.}, keywords = {Acid mine drainage,Aspergillus niger,biosorption,Copper,Phanerochaete chrysosporium,Sarcheshmeh}, url = {https://ijmge.ut.ac.ir/article_51321.html}, eprint = {https://ijmge.ut.ac.ir/article_51321_00b08c6c5c3c3d67442751dd2de6e439.pdf} }