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Testing the capacity of staphylococcus equorum for calcium and copper removal through MICP process

Minerals, ISSN: 2075-163X, Vol: 11, Issue: 8
2021
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  • Citations
    18
    • Citation Indexes
      18
  • Captures
    79
  • Mentions
    1
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1

Article Description

This research focused on the evaluation of the potential use of a soil-isolated bacteria, identified as Staphylococcus equorum, for microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP) and copper removal. Isolated bacteria were characterized considering growth rate, urease activity, calcium carbonate precipitation, copper tolerance as minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and copper precipitation. Results were compared with Sporosarcina pasteurii, which is considered a model bacteria strain for MICP processes. The results indicated that the S. equorum strain had lower urease activity, calcium removal capacity and copper tolerance than the S. pasteurii strain. However, the culture conditions tested in this study did not consider the halophilic feature of the S. equorum, which could make it a promising bacterial strain to be applied in process water from mining operations when seawater is used as process water. On the other hand, copper removal was insufficient when applying any of the bacteria strains evaluated, most likely due to the formation of a copper–ammonia complex. Thus, the implementation of S. equorum for copper removal needs to be further studied, considering the optimization of culture conditions, which may promote better performance when considering calcium, copper or other metals precipitation.

Bibliographic Details

Sebastián Sepúlveda; Carla Duarte-Nass; Mariella Rivas; Laura Azócar; Andrés Ramírez; Leopoldo Gutiérrez; Javiera Toledo-Alarcón; David Jeison; Álvaro Torres-Aravena

MDPI AG

Earth and Planetary Sciences

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