Treatment of highly concentrated formaldehyde effluent using adsorption and ultrasonic dissociation on mesoporous copper iodide (CuI) nano-powder.

Herein we report a successful degradation of highly concentrated formaldehyde (HCHO, 900 ppm <) effluent from a petrochemical industry using sono-catalytic reaction on highly porous (BET surface of 128 m g) copper iodide (CuI) nanocrystals as the adsorbent. In this regard, the designed experiments for optimization indicated that the ultrasonic wave (40 kHz) and mass of adsorbent (30 g/L) were significant in HCHO removal so that the combination of the adsorption under ultrasonic degradation resulted in approaching the eliminating efficiency of more than 99%. In this way, GC-MS analysis confirmed the CO production during HCHO degradation.

Optimization of staged bioleaching of low-grade chalcopyrite ore in the presence and absence of chloride in the irrigating lixiviant: ANFIS simulation.

In this investigation, copper was bioleached from a low-grade chalcopyrite ore using a chloride-containing lixiviant. In this regard, firstly, the composition of the bacterial culture media was designed to control the cost in commercial application. The bacterial culture used in this process was acclimated to the presence of chloride in the lixiviant.

Bio-processing of copper from combined smelter dust and flotation concentrate: a comparative study on the stirred tank and airlift reactors.

To scrutinize the influence of the design and type of the bioreactors on the bioleaching efficiency, the bioleaching were evaluated in a batch airlift and a batch stirred tank bioreactors with mixed mesophilic and mixed moderately thermophilic bacteria. According to the results, maximum copper recoveries were achieved using the cultures in the stirred tank bioreactors. It is worth noting that the main phase of the flotation concentrate was chalcopyrite (as a primary sulphide), but the smelter dust mainly contained secondary copper sulphides such as Cu(2)S, CuS, and Cu(5)FeS(4).