Título: | FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF APATITE AND QUARTZ BIOFLOTATION USING THE RHODOCOCCUS OPACUS BACTERIUM AS A BIOREAGENT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
ANTONIO GUTIERREZ MERMA |
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Colaborador(es): |
MAURICIO LEONARDO TOREM - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 12/MAR/2013 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21285&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21285&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.21285 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Microorganisms, bacteria, fungi and/or their metabolic products have been
used as biorreagents in mineral processing. A hydrophobic microorganism should
render a hydrophilic mineral surface somewhat hydrophobic if these attach to the
mineral. It’s the case of the Rhodococcus Opacus strain, which hydrophobic
behavior was proved in others works. In this work, we studied the electrophoretic
behavior and the microflotation response of the apatite-quartz system after
interaction with bacterial cells. The zeta potential results showed a change in the
profile of the minerals after the bacterial interaction, this change was more
significant in apatite than in quartz. These results also suggest that the bacterial
adhesion in the minerals surface was not for electrostatic interactions. It was
observed that the bacterial reduced the interfacial tension from air/water from 70
mN/m to 54 mN/m, 55 mN/m and 56 mN/m for suspensions with values of pH 3,
5 and 7 respectively, values where the higher quantity of foam was formed. The
higher flotabilities of all minerals used was recorded in pH 5. The green apatite
flotability achieved a value around 90 per cent with 150 mg.L-1 of bacterial after 5
minutes of flotation, while the blue apatite needed 200 mg.L-1 of the bacterial to
achieve the same flotability under the same experimental conditions. On the other
hand, the quartz flotability had a value around 13 per cent, with 150 mg.L-1 of bacteria
and after 5 minutes of flotation. The bacterial adaptation to mineral substrate
revealed a change in the bacterial behavior during the flotation process; it was
observed a higher apatite flotability in pH 3 after the adaptation of the bacterial to
apatite as substrate. The quartz flotability also showed a small increase in all the
pH range studied. The mineral flotability followed the first order kinetics model,
the rate constants (K) for the blue apatite flotability underwent a reduction with
small particles size, changing from 0,429 (min-1) to 0,198 (min-1) when the
particle size was altered from (106 – 150) um to (38 – 75)um, while the rate
constants for the green apatite flotability changed from 0,518 (min-1) to 0,295
(min-1). Finally the rate constants of the quartz flotability suffer an increased from
0,016 min-1 to 0,11 min-1. The fundamental electroforetic and flotation studies
together to the Scanning electron microscopy showed a selectivity bioflotation in
the apatite-quartz system, demonstrating in this way the potential that
Rhodococcus opacus as a biocollector and its possible application in phosphate
flotation industry.
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