中國(guó)有色金屬學(xué)報(bào)(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 18 No. 6 December 2008 |
YU RUN-lan(余潤(rùn)蘭)1, QIU Guan-zhou(邱冠周)1
（1. School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University,
Changsha 410083, China;
2. Key Discipline Laboratory of National Defence for Biotechnology in Uranium Mining and Hydrometallurgy,
University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China）
Abstract:In the case of in-situ leaching of uranium, the primitive geochemical environment for groundwater is changed since leachant is injected into the water bearing uranium deposit. This increases the concentration of SO42−, uranium and other heavy metal ions and results in the groundwater contamination. The effects of pH values of the simulated solution on the reduction of SO42− and the removal of uranium and other heavy metal ions by sulfate reducing bacteria(SRB) were studied. The results show that, when the pH value of the simulated solution is about 8, the reduction rate of SO42− by SRB and the removal rate of uranium, Mn2+, Zn2+, Pb2+ and Fe2+ will reach their highest values. A bioremediation technique for remediation of groundwater in in-situ leaching uranium mine can be developed.
Key words: sulfate reducing bacteria; in-situ leaching of uranium; radioactively contaminated groundwater; bioremediation
