Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Mineral Biotechnology

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0417/01
Abbreviation	MB
Course title	Mineral Biotechnology
Credits	3
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, Biotechnologies and their development
2. Environmental biogenic processes as basic principles of mineral biotechnologies
3. Mineral biotechnologies
4. Chemical and biological principle of element cycle in the biosphere
5. The course of environmental processes on deposits with sulfitic mineralization
6. Biological-chemical leaching of pyrite (FeS2)
7. Biological-chemical leaching of arsenopyrite (FeAsS)
8. Biological-chemical leaching of Cu sulphides
9. Biological-chemical leaching of antimonite (Sb2S3)
10. Biological-chemical leaching of sphalerite (ZnS)
11. Biological-chemical leaching of galenite (PbS)
12. Biological-chemical leaching of sulfitic ores on the surface of mining plants
13. Non-extraction – dressing methods of utilizing biological-chemical oxidation processes in the processing of sulfitic concentrates
14. Study of potential application of biogenic processes into technological procedures of treatment and processing of selected sulfitic ores
15. Consequences of environmental processes in the biotopes of waste dump sulfitic deposits from their mining
16. Identification of biogenic processes in old mine burdens

Literature

Fečko P. a kol. Environmentální biotechnologie. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2004 - 180 s. : il. ISBN 80-248-0700-9.

Kušnierová M., Fečko P. Minerálne biotechnológie I v ťažbe a úprave sulfidických ložísk. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2001 - 143 s. : il. ISBN 80-248-0023-3.

Luptáková A., et al. Minerálne biotechnológie II : sulfuretum v prírode a v priemysle. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2002 - 152 s. : il. ISBN 80-248-0114-0.

Kaduková J., Virčíková E. Minerálne biotechnológie III : biosorpcia kovov z roztokov. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2003 - 91 s. : il. ISBN 80-248-0244-9.

Fečko, P. et al. Environmental biotechnology. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2006 - 182 s. : il. ISBN 80-248-1090-5.

Flynne, W. G. Biotechnology and bioengineering. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008 - xii, 272 s. : il. ISBN 978-1-60456-067-1.

Atlas, R.M.: Microbiology, Fundamentals and Applications. 2nd Ed. Macmillan Publishing Comp., New York, 1988.

Advised literature

Fečko, P. et al. Environmental biotechnology. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2006 - 182 s. : il. ISBN 80-248-1090-5.

Fečko, P. Netradiční způsoby úpravy černouhelných kalů. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2001 - 149 s. : il. ISBN 80-7078-921-2.

M.F.M. Bijmans, P.-J. van Helvoort, C.J.N. Buisman, P.N.L. Lens, Effect of the sulfide concentration on zinc bio-precipitation in a single stage sulfidogenic bioreactor at pH 5.5, Separation and Purification Technology, Vol. 69, No. 3, 2009.

K.R. Blight, R.M. Candy, D.E. Ralph, The preferential oxidation of orthorhombic sulfur during batch culture, Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 99, No. 1-2, 2009.

R.A. Cameron, R. Lastra, S. Mortazavi, W.D. Gould, Y. Thibault, P.L. Bedard, L. Morin, K.J. Kennedy, Elevated-pH bioleaching of a low-grade ultramafic nickel sulphide ore in stirred-tank reactors at 5 to 45oC, Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 99, No. 1-2, 2009.

Huan He, Jin-Lan Xia, Yi Yang, Hongchen Jiang, Chun-qiao Xiao, Lei Zheng, Chen-yan Ma, Yi-dong Zhao, Guan-zhou Qiu, Sulfur speciation on the surface of chalcopyrite leached by Acidianus manzaensis, Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 99, No. 1-2, 2009.

V. Sheoran, A.S. Sheoran, P. Poonia, Phytomining: A review, Minerals Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 12, 2009.

F. Xiao, Ju-Chang Howard Huang, Comparison of biosorbents with inorganic sorbents for removing copper(II) from aqueous solutions, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 90, No. 10, 2009.

Recyklace odpadů XI : 6.-7.12.2007, Košice. I, II / [editor Peter Fečko, Vladimír Čablík]. - Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2007 - 248 s. : il. ISBN 978-80-248-1597-8, 978-80248-1676-0.

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