Bioprospecting for sustainable mineral management

可持续矿物管理的生物勘探

• 批准号: 2747177
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2747177
• 关键词: Bioprospecting; sustainable; mineral; management

This project investigates the potential to use microorganisms to access these metals and help meet the supply demands of society.To do this we need to find bacteria and fungi that already have the ability to survive in metal-rich environments and which are able to mobilise the metals, so that we can then concentrate the metals and use them.The place to look is the very mine waste sites where the metals are present. Microbes at these sites have evolved in metal-rich environments and exploit the energy released during reactions involving the metals for growth. Once I have characterised the microbial populations I will carry out laboratory-based experiments to determine which of the microbes present at these sites can be used to process and concentrate the metals present in the wastes into an accessible and concentrated form suitable for down-stream technological application.

该项目研究了使用微生物进入这些金属的潜力，并帮助满足社会的供应需求。要做到这一点，我们需要找到已经能够在金属丰富的环境中生存的细菌和真菌，这些环境能够动员金属，并能够将金属集中到这些位置并使用它们。这些地点的微生物已经在金属富含金属的环境中发展，并利用涉及金属生长的反应期间释放的能量。一旦我表征了微生物种群，我将进行基于实验室的实验，以确定这些地点上存在的微生物可用于处理和集中在废物中的金属中，以适用于适合下游技术应用的可访问和浓缩形式。