Low-temperature sulphate reduction: biological versus abiological

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1910-1918 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Trudinger ◽  
L. A. Chambers ◽  
J. W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Base Metal ◽  
Ferrous Iron ◽  
Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Base Metal Sulphide ◽  
Metal Sulphide ◽  
Sulphate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Bacterial Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

Sulphate is considered to have been a major source of sulphide in strata-bound and stratiform base-metal sulphide deposits. Many of these deposits, however, appear to have been formed at moderate temperatures (<200 °C), which poses the question, By what mechanism(s) was sulphate reduced to sulphide? Two modes of reduction have been established experimentally: (1) catalysis by sulphate-reducing bacteria, which at present is only known to occur below ca. 100 °C; and (2) abiological reduction by ferrous iron or organic matter, which has only been clearly shown above ca. 250 °C.Several attempts have been made to demonstrate abiological reduction below 200 °C, and some new data are presented here. Although the results do not exclude the possibility that such a reaction may be geochemically significant, there has been no unequivocal demonstration of nett sulphide formation from sulphate at these temperatures.Recent studies of the microbiology of hydrothermal regions have opened up the prospect of bacterial sulphate reduction at much higher temperatures than had earlier been thought possible.

scholarly journals Positive and negative aspects of suplhate-reducing bacteria in environment and industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
Alena Luptakova ◽  
Eva Macingova ◽  
Vlasta Harbulakova
Keyword(s):  
Acid Mine Drainage ◽  
Hydrogen Sulphide ◽  
Bacterial Production ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Sodium Lactate ◽  
Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Calcium Lactate ◽  
Sulphate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Bacterial Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

The submitted work is oriented on the study of two aspects of the sulphate-reducing bacteria metabolism: the metals bioprecipitation and the concrete biodeterioration. The bioprecipitation of metals with the bacterially produced hydrogen sulphide by sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) represents the positive effect of the SRB existence in the environment. It allows the industrial exploitation in the area of the removal metals from industrial wastewaters. Referred method involves principal stages such as: hydrogen sulphide bacterial production, metals precipitation by biologically produced hydrogen sulphide, metal sulphides separation, setting pH of the filtrate from previous steps by 1M NaOH and metal hydroxides separation. The basis of the first stage i.e. the hydrogen sulphide bacterial production is the cultivation of SRB. In the laboratory conditions the sodium lactate is the energetic substrate for the growth of bacteria. Its price is not economic for the application in the practice and is needed investigate the alternative substitutes. Therefore was studied the cultivation of sulphate-reducing bacteria to using the selected energetic substrates such as: calcium lactate, glycerol and whey. Experimental studies confirm that all chosen substrates are suitable alternative substrates of sodium lactate for the bacterial sulphate-reduction. In the regard to the efficiency of bacterial sulphate reduction the calcium lactate is the best. The biodeterioration of the concrete presents the negative effect of the SRB existence in the environment. The research was oriented on the simulation of the biodeterioration of concrete samples under the simultaneous influence of the sulphur-oxidising bacteria genera Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and sulphatereducing bacteria genera Desulfovibrio in the environs of the waste water, the acid mine drainage, the nutrient medium and the distilled water. The observation of the surface structure changes of concrete samples confirms the highest biodeterioration influences in the case of the acid mine drainage application.

scholarly journals Determination of the Substrates for Sulphate-reducing Bacteria within Marine and Esturaine Sediments with Different Rates of Sulphate Reduction

Microbiology ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. PARKES ◽  
G. R. GIBSON ◽  
I. MUELLER-HARVEY ◽  
W. J. BUCKINGHAM ◽  
R. A. HERBERT
Keyword(s):  
Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Sulphate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

Chapter 8 Outboard-migrating accretionary orogeny at 1.9–1.8 Ga (Svecokarelian) along a margin to the continent Fennoscandia

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Base Metal ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Base Metal Sulphide ◽  
Metal Sulphide ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Ductile Shear Zones ◽  
Strike Slip Movement

AbstractAn intimate lithostratigraphic and lithodemic connection between syn-orogenic rock masses inside the different lithotectonic units of the 2.0–1.8 Ga (Svecokarelian) orogen, Sweden, is proposed. A repetitive cyclic tectonic evolution occurred during the time period c. 1.91–1.75 Ga, each cycle lasting about 50–55 million years. Volcanic rocks (c. 1.91–1.88 Ga) belonging to the earliest cycle are host to most of the base metal sulphide and Fe oxide deposits inside the orogen. Preservation of relict trails of continental magmatic arcs and intra-arc basins is inferred, with differences in the depth of basin deposition controlling, for example, contrasting types of base metal sulphide deposits along different trails. The segmented geometry of these continental magmatic arcs and intra-arc basins is related to strike-slip movement along ductile shear zones during transpressive events around and after 1.88 Ga; late orogenic folding also disturbed their orientation on a regional scale. A linear northwesterly orogenic trend is suggested prior to this structural overprint, the strike-slip movement being mainly parallel to the orogen. A solely accretionary orogenic model along an active margin to the continent Fennoscandia, without any trace of a terminal continent–continent collision, is preferred. Alternating retreating and advancing subduction modes that migrated progressively outboard and southwestwards in time account for the tectonic cycles.

The bacteria of the sulphur cycle

1982 ◽  
Vol 298 (1093) ◽  
pp. 433-441 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Degradation Products ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Elemental Sulphur ◽  
Sulphur Compounds ◽  
Sulphate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Marine Habitats ◽  
Sulphur Bacteria ◽  
Terminal Oxidation ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

This paper concentrates on the bacteria involved in the reductions and oxidations of inorganic sulphur compounds under anaerobic conditions. The genera of the dissimilatory sulphate-reducing bacteria known today are discussed with respect to their different capacities to decompose and oxidize various products of fermentative degradations of organic matter. The utilization of molecular hydrogen and formate by sulphate reducers shifts fermentations towards the energetically more favourable formation of acetate. Since acetate amounts to about two-thirds of the degradation products of organic matter, the complete anaerobic oxidation of acetate by several genera of the sulphate-reducing bacteria is an important function for terminal oxidation in sulphatesufficient environments. The results of pure culture studies agree well with ecological investigations of several authors who showed the significance of sulphate reduction for the complete oxidation of organic matter in anaerobic marine habitats. In the dissimilatory sulphur-reducing bacteria of the genus Desulfuromonas the oxidation of acetate is linked to the reduction of elemental sulphur. Major characteristics of the anaerobic, sulphide-oxidizing phototrophic green and purple sulphur bacteria as well as of some facultative anoxygenic cyanobacteria are given. By the formation of elemental sulphur and sulphate, these bacteria establish sulphur cycles with the sulphide-forming bacteria. In view of the morphological diversity of the sulphate-reducing bacteria the question of possible evolutionary relations to phototrophic sulphur bacteria is raised.

Sulphate reduction, organic matter decomposition and pyrite formation

1985 ◽  
Vol 315 (1531) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Theoretical Calculations ◽  
Decay Rates ◽  
Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Burial Rate ◽  
First Order Kinetics ◽  
Bacterial Sulphate Reduction ◽  
Bottom Waters ◽  
Pyrite Formation

Laboratory, field, and theoretical studies have shown that the rate of bacterial sulphate reduction during early diagenesis depends primarily on the reactivity of sedimentary organic matter whose decomposition follows first-order kinetics, with rate constants varying over six orders of magnitude. Decay rates decrease with decreasing sediment burial rate and, for a given sediment, with depth, because o f the successive utilization by bacteria of less and less reactive organic compounds. High burial (and bioturbation) rates enable reactive compounds to become available for sulphate reduction, at depth, which otherwise would be destroyed by molecular oxygen at or above the sediment-water interface. An important consequence of bacterial sulphate reduction is the formation of sedimentary pyrite, FeS 2 . In normal marine sediments (those deposited in oxygenated bottom waters) pyrite formation is limited by the concentration and reactivity of organic matter, whereas in euxinic (sulphidic) basins pyrite is limited by the abundance and reactivity of detrital iron minerals, and in non-saline swamp and lake sediments by the low levels of dissolved sulphate found in fresh water. Because of these differences in limiting factors, the three environments can be distinguished in both modern sediments and ancient rocks by plots of organic carbon, C against pyrite sulphur, S. Values of the C:S ratio based on theoretical calculations indicate that worldwide the bulk of organic matter burial has shifted considerably between these environments over Phanerozoic time.

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