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Microbial Stabilization of Sulfur laden Sorbents Quarterly Technical Report March 1 1993 May 31 1993
Download or read book Microbial Stabilization of Sulfur laden Sorbents Quarterly Technical Report March 1 1993 May 31 1993 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean coal technologies that involve limestone for in situ sulfur capture generate lime/limestone products laden with sulfur at various oxidation states. If sulfur is completely stabilized as sulfate, the spent sorbent is ready for commercial utilization as gypsum. However, the presence of reduced sulfur species requires additional processing. Thermal oxidation of reduced sulfur frequently results in undesirable release of SO2. Microbial oxidation might provide an inexpensive and effective alternative. Sorbents laden with reduced forms of sulfur such as sulfide or sulfite can serve as growth substrates for sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, which convert all sulfur to sulfate. The goals of this project are the following: (1) to optimize conditions for sulfate generation from sulfide, thiosulfate, and sulfite; (2) to test and optimize the effectiveness of microbial processing on spent sorbents from flue gas desulfurization, coal gasification, and fluidized bed combustion; (3) to search for hyperalkalinophilic thiobacilli, which would be effective up to pH 11. This quarter, temperature, nitrogen, and phosphate requirements for sulfate generation on thiosulfate were optimized with respect to two named strains and two promising isolates. Spent sorbents from three different power plants were tested for sulfite and thiosulfate contents, in preparation for bioprocessing.