What is it about?
Ilmenite, an inert mineral supply, valuable once refined. But how would you do that? Commercially, industries have been extracting the value degrading FERROUS (Iron III) chemically, noting its great efficiency. However, that's NOT ENVIRONMENTALLY TOLERABLE. Therefore, we have proposed A NOVEL BIO-REFINING method called BIOLEACHING using microbial strains to extract these FERROUS (Iron III). More sustainable, and least risky.
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Why is it important?
One must understand how industries have populated our demography. As industries surge, so did population and POLLUTION. Applied chemistry has been the key field producing myriad products to consumers, but at a cost of chemical pollution. Chemical pollution, in the form of air, water, land and what else to come? We are shifting the paradigm, with proper research and experimental data and results, applied biology as WILL BE A COMPETITIVE REPLACEMENT to the chemicals. We're a smaller part of the larger discovery in FUTURE SUSTAINABLE BIOLOGY.
Perspectives
Our paper introduces a more sustainable and risk-free method to leach impurities. Industries of mining and refining are recommended to join hands with bio-based researches to improve their sustainability, not only to the environment, also their business as well. I personally found, our paper is also accessible to next gen student to venture into biology fields, and make way for many more breakthroughs to come.
Raveenthiran Rajan
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This page is a summary of: Reductive dissolution of iron (III) from ilmenite ore (FeTiO3) by iron reducing bacteria, January 2023, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0149211.
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