Terminated in academic year 2006/2007

Mineral Biotechnology I

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0437/03
Abbreviation	MB I
Course title	Mineral Biotechnology I
Credits	6
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Peter Fečko, CSc.

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, Peter, Mária KUŠNIEROVÁ, Vladimír ČABLÍK and Iva PEČTOVÁ(Janáková). Environmental biotechnology. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2006. ISBN 8024810905.
FLYNNE, W. G. Biotechnology and bioengineering. New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2008. ISBN 978-1-60456-067-1.
ATLAS, R.M.: Microbiology, Fundamentals and Applications. 2nd Ed. Macmillan Publishing Comp., New York, 1988. Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology [online]. 3rd ed.
KüCK, Ulrich FRANKENBERG-DINKEL, Nicole. Biotechnology. De Gruyter, 2015.

Advised literature

Barnum, S. R. Biotechnology : an introduction. Belmont : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2005 - x, 323 s. : il. ISBN 0-534-49296-7.
SINGH, Shree N. a R. D. TRIPATHI. Environmental bioremediation technologies. New York: Springer, c2007. ISBN 9783540347903.
Yates, Marylynn V. Nakatsu, Cindy H. Miller, Robert V. Pillai, Suresh D. Manual of Environmental Microbiology (4th Edition). American Society for Microbiology (ASM). 2016.
ZAJKOV, Gennadij Jefremovič, ed. Research progress in biotechnology. New York: Nova Biomedical Books, c2008. ISBN 978-1-60456-000-8.

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