根据Young s方程的推导公式结合接触角的测定结果计算黄铁矿和氧化亚铁硫杆菌的表面能参数。结果表明,氧化亚铁硫杆菌的表面能明显高于黄铁矿的表面能。应用热力学计算氧化亚铁硫杆菌在黄铁矿表面吸附的自由能,发现其吸附自由能为正值,无法解释氧化亚铁硫杆菌在黄铁矿表面的吸附现象,而通过扩展DLVO理论建立的Lifshitz-van der Waals(LW)、Lewis acid-base(AB)和静电(EL)作用自由能与作用距离(d)之间的势能曲线,能够准确的预言氧化亚铁硫杆菌在黄铁矿表面的吸附现象。
A moderately thermophilic acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacterium ZW-1 was isolated from Dexing mine, Jiangxi Province, China. The morphological, biochemical and physiological characteristics, 16S rRNA sequence and bioleaching characterization of strain ZW-1 were studied. The optimum growth temperature is 48 ℃, and the optimum initial pH is 1.9. The strain can grow autotrophically by using ferrous iron or elemental sulfur as sole energy sources. The strain is also able to grow heterotrophically by using peptone and yeast extract powder, but not glucose. The cell density of strain ZW-1 can reach up to 1.02×108 /mL with addition of 0.4 g/L peptone. A phylogenetic tree was constructed by comparing with the published 16S rRNA sequences of the relative bacteria species. In the phylogenetic tree, strain ZW-1 is closely relative to Sulfobacilus acidophilus with more than 99% sequence similarity. The results of bioleaching experiments indicate that the strain could oxidize Fe2+ efficiently, and the maximum oxidizing rate is 0.295 g/(L·h). It could tolerate high concentration of Fe3+ and Cu2+ (35 g/L and 25 g/L, respectively). After 20 d, 44.6% of copper is extracted from chalcopyrite by using strain ZW-1 as inocula.
