| Title | Food Waste-Assisted Metal Extraction from Printed Circuit Boards: The Aspergillus niger Route |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 6632 |
| Authors | Alias, C; Bulgari, D; Bilo, F; Borgese, L; Gianoncelli, A; Ribaudo, G; Gobbi, E; Alessandri, I |
| Title | Food Waste-Assisted Metal Extraction from Printed Circuit Boards: The Aspergillus niger Route |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | Microorganisms, 9, 5 |
| Abstract | A low-energy paradigm was adopted for sustainable, affordable, and effective urban waste valorization. Here a new, eco-designed, solid-state fermentation process is presented to obtain some useful bio-products by recycling of different wastes. Urban food waste and scraps from trimmings were used as a substrate for the production of citric acid (CA) by solid state fermentation of Aspergillus niger NRRL 334, with a yield of 20.50 mg of CA per gram of substrate. The acid solution was used to extract metals from waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs), one of the most common electronic waste. The leaching activity of the biological solution is comparable to a commercial CA one. Sn and Fe were the most leached metals (404.09 and 67.99 mg/L, respectively), followed by Ni and Zn (4.55 and 1.92 mg/L) without any pre-treatments as usually performed. Commercial CA extracted Fe more efficiently than the organic one (123.46 vs. 67.99 mg/L); vice versa, biological organic CA recovered Ni better than commercial CA (4.55 vs. 1.54 mg/L). This is the first approach that allows the extraction of metals from WPCBs through CA produced by A. niger directly grown on waste material without any sugar supplement. This "green" process could be an alternative for the recovery of valuable metals such as Fe, Pb, and Ni from electronic waste. |
| https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/5/895/pdf?version=1619081839 |
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