International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis

Special Issue

Biometallurgy

  • Submission Deadline: 30 April 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: NillyA. Kawady
About This Special Issue
In the light of the expected shortage of nonrenewable resources, increase efforts are absolutely necessary to open new sources of raw materials with the aid of new or improved technologies. A possibility to obtain metals from low grade mineral resources by the use of microbiological leaching processes.

Biometallurgy is a technology includes the bioleaching, biosorption and bioaccumulation. The bioleaching is the dissolution of metals from their mineral sources by certain naturally occurring microorganisms or the use of microorganisms to excrete organic acids and other components which are used to solubilze elements so that the elements can be extracted from a material. This process can be occurred either directly by the metabolism of microorganisms or indirectly by the products of metabolism.

Applications of biometallurgy are used to perform processes involving metals, for example, microbial mining, oil recovery, bioleaching, water-treatment, recycling of waste, recycling of critical metals and others. Biometallurgy is mainly used to recover precious metals from their ores. It is usually utilized when conventional mining procedures are too expensive or ineffective in recovering a metal such as copper, gold, lead, nickel and zinc. Furthermore, it is considered as an environmental friendly process which have no toxic chemical needed or generated and consume low energy. In addition, the treatment of low concentrations is possible.

Aims and Scope:

1. Applications of environmental radionuclides and valuable elements
2. Environmental Sciences such as chemistry, biology, ecology, geosciences and physics
3. Technology, conservation of natural resources
4. Resource recovery
5. Remediation of environmental pollution
6. Mineral processing and extractive metallurgy
7. Bioprocesses and Bioproducts
8. Biological waste treatment
Lead Guest Editor
  • NillyA. Kawady

    Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt

Guest Editors
  • Ibrahim E. El Aassy

    Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt

  • Maisa M. Amin

    Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt

  • Elsayed Salama Ahmed

    Basic Science Department, Faculty of Engineering, British University, El- Shorouk City, Egypt