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.

该项目研究利用微生物获取这些金属的潜力，以帮助满足社会的供应需求。为此，我们需要找到能够在富含金属的环境中生存的细菌和真菌，它们能够调动金属，这样我们就可以集中金属并使用它们。我们要找的地方就是存在金属的矿山废物场。这些地点的微生物在富含金属的环境中进化，并利用涉及金属的反应过程中释放的能量进行生长。一旦我确定了微生物种群的特征，我将进行实验室实验，以确定这些地点存在的哪些微生物可用于处理和浓缩废物中存在的金属，使其成为适合下游技术应用的可获得和浓缩的形式。