Studies on uranium recovery from a U-bearing Radoniów Dump

• Autorzy: Kiegiel Katarzyna , Roubinek Otton , Gajda Dorota , Kalbarczyk Paweł , Zakrzewska-Kołtuniewicz Grażyna , Chmielewski Andrzej G.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/nuka-2021-0017

• Konferencja: International Conference on Development and Applications of Nuclear Technologies NUTECH-2020 (04–07.10.2020; Warsaw, Poland)
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This work reports the possibility of uranium recovery from a post-mining uranium ore dump in Poland by a bioleaching method. The studies were conducted on the dump leaching model with the mass of 570 kg of uranium bearing mineral material from Radoniów pile and in the periodic bioreactor with a work volume of 80 dm3 and with mechanical mixing and aeration of the charge. The uranium concentration in the examined material was about 800 ppm. In this process, the consortium of microorganisms isolated from former mines was used. It was composed of the following microorganisms: Bacillius, Pseudomonas, Sphingomonas, Thiobacillus, Halothiobacillus, Thiomonas, and Geothrix. The effi ciency of the uranium bioleaching process was 98% in the reactor, and a yield of 70% was obtained in the dump leaching model. The post-leaching solution contained signifi cant amounts of uranium ions that were separated in two stages: (1) by ion chromatography and then (2) by a two-step precipitation method. The resulting solution was a source of ammonium diuranate, the precursor of yellowcake (uranium oxides).

Słowa kluczowe

EN

ammonium diuranate precipitation; bioleaching; uranium

• Wydawca: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
• Czasopismo: Nukleonika
• Rocznik: 2021
• Tom: Vol. 66, No. 4
• Strony: 115--119
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Kiegiel Katarzyna

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Dorodna 16 Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2624-7303

autor

Roubinek Otton

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Dorodna 16 Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland
• Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Chemistry Laboratory of Technological Processes Noakowskiego 3 Str., 00-664 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6492-7118

autor

Gajda Dorota

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Dorodna 16 Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6335-4792

autor

Kalbarczyk Paweł

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Dorodna 16 Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4264-3410

autor

Zakrzewska-Kołtuniewicz Grażyna

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Dorodna 16 Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5201-1551

autor

Chmielewski Andrzej G.

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Dorodna 16 Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6262-5952

Bibliografia

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa Nr 461252 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2021).