TY - JOUR N2 - The aim of this work was to determine the influence of various variants of bioleaching on effectivity of releasing chosen critical metals: rhodium, cadmium, indium, niobium and chromium from ashes which are a byproduct of municipal waste and sewage sludge thermal processing. The research was conducted in 3 variants that considered different process factors such as temperature (24ºC and 37ºC), mixing intensity and aeration. After 5 days of the process the analyses were made of metals content, sulfate concentration, pH, general number of bacteria number, index of sulfur oxidizing bacteria. The best results of bioleaching were achieved by running the process at the temperature of 24ºC with aeration. The efficiency of rhodium and cadmium release from the byproduct of municipal waste thermal processing was above 90%. The efficiency of indium and chromium release reached 50–60%. Only niobium leached better in mixing conditions. The byproduct of sewage sludge thermal processing was far less susceptible to bioleaching. The highest effectivity (on a level of 50%) was reached for indium in temperature of 24°C with aeration. The efficiency of bioleaching depended on waste’s physiochemical properties and type of metal which will be released. Aeration with compressed air had a positive influence on the increase of sulfur oxidizing bacteria what corresponded with almost double increase of sulfate concentration in leaching culture. Such conditions had a positive influence on the increase of the efficiency of bioleaching process. Heightening the temperature to 37°C and slowly mixing did not impact bioleaching in a positive way. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112230/PDF/Archives%20vol%2045%20no%203__9.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112230 PY - 2019 IS - No 3 EP - 78 DO - 10.24425/aep.2019.128643 KW - bioleaching KW - activated sludge KW - critical metals KW - furnace wastes KW - sulfur oxidizing bacteria A1 - Andrzejewska-Górecka, Dorota A. A1 - Poniatowska, Agnieszka A1 - Macherzyński, Bartłomiej A1 - Wojewódka, Dominik A1 - Sierakowski, Maciej PB - Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 45 DA - 30.08.2019 T1 - Release of critical metals from furnace wastes using the process of bioleaching in various variants SP - 72 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112230 T2 - Archives of Environmental Protection ER -