Estudo da oxidação dos sulfetos sintéticos molibdenita (MoS2) e covelita (CuS) por Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans via respirometria celular

Química Nova

Wilmo E. Francisco Junior²  Denise Bevilaqua¹  Oswaldo Garcia Júnior¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Rondônia Departamento de Química Porto Velho RO

关键词: sulfide oxidation;    A. ferrooxidans;    respirometric experiments;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-40422009000600022

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This paper analyses the oxidation of covellite and molybdenite by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain LR using respirometric experiments. The results showed that both sulfides were oxidized by A. ferrooxidans, however, the covellite oxidation was much higher than molybdenite. Regarding the kinetic oxidation, the findings revealed that just molybdenite oxidation followed the classical Michaelis-Menten kinetic. It is probably associated with the pathway which these sulfides react to chemistry-bacterial attack, what is influenced by its electronic structures. Besides, experiments conducted in the presence of Fe3+ did not indicate alterations in molybdenite oxidation. Thus, ferric ions seem not to be essential to the sulfide oxidations.

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