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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 445, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130506
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Heavy metal pollution; Bioleaching; Sediment; Physicochemical property; Mechanism; Bioleaching process improvement
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Bioleaching is a promising technology for remediating heavy metal-contaminated sediments. However, the complex heterogeneities of the sediments can hinder its practical application by reducing acidification efficiency and heavy metal removal rate.
Bioleaching is a promising technology to remediate sediments contaminated by heavy metals. However, the complex heterogeneities of the sediments can reduce the acidification efficiency and the heavy metal removal rate, thus hindering the practical application of sediment bioleaching. This experiment conducted comparative bioleaching experiments between the inoculated group (average leaching percentages: Cu 67.64%; Zn 54.44%; Ni 29.59%) and the non-inoculated control group (Cu 37.10%; Zn 41.04%; Ni 19.89%) on 28 sediments char-acterized by different physicochemical properties to explore the key factors influencing bioleaching. The results indicated that the bioleaching process was predominated by the indigenous bioleaching bacteria and the bio-leaching inoculum, respectively. The ACCpH=4(acid-consuming capacity), TOC (total organic carbon), and TN (total nitrogen) of the sediments played an essential role in influencing the microbial community structure and bioleaching performance: the ACCpH=4, as the inhibitive factor, could influence the succession growth of the indigenous bioleaching bacteria and the inoculum during the bioleaching process, while the TOC and TN, as the contributing factor, could influence the metabolism of the indigenous bioleaching bacteria. Based on these re-sults, the bioleaching process was improved with the classification and pretreatments of sediment to realize successful bioleaching of all types of the sediments examined in this research.
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