Payam Rasoulnia
Top achievements
Award of the top MSc thesis of Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology group, 2015: Fungal Leaching of Metals from Power Plant Fly Ash.
Research topics
Environmental Biotechnology
Bioleaching of primary and secondary metal sources
Microbial Process optimization
Research unit
Selected publications
1. Payam Rasoulnia, Robert Barthen & Aino-Maija Lakaniemi: A critical review of bioleaching of rare earth elements: The mechanisms and effect of process parameters, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, (2020), DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2020.1727718
2. P. Rasoulnia, S.M. Mousavi, Maximization of organic acids production by Aspergillus niger in a bubble column bioreactor for V and Ni recovery enhancement from power plant residual ash in spent-medium bioleaching experiments, Bioresource Technology, 216 (2016) 729-736.
3. P. Rasoulnia and S. M. Mousavi, V and Ni recovery from a vanadium-rich power plant residual ash using acid producing fungi: Aspergillus niger and Penicillium simplicissimum, RSC Advances, 6 (2016) 9139-9151.
4. P. Rasoulnia, S.M. Mousavi, S.O. Rastegar, H. Azargoshasb, Fungal leaching of valuable metals from a power plant residual ash using Penicillium simplicissimum: Evaluation of thermal pretreatment and different bioleaching methods, Waste Management, 52 (2016) 309-317.
5. Payam Rasoulnia and Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi, Bioleaching of Precious Metals from an Oil-Fired Ash Using Organic Acids Produced by Aspergillus Niger in Shake Flasks and Bioreactor, International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications, Vol. 7, (2016), No. 6.
6. M. Arshadi, S.M. Mousavi, P. Rasoulnia, Enhancement of simultaneous gold and copper recovery from discarded mobile phone PCBs using Bacillus megaterium: RSM based optimization of effective factors and evaluation of their interactions, Waste Management, 57 (2016) 158-167.
7. Payam Rasoulnia, Seyyed Mohamad Mousavi, A comparison between spent-medium bioleaching and chemical leaching of V and Ni from an oil-fired ash produced in power plant furnaces, The 9th International Chemical Engineering Congress & Exhibition (IChEC 2015) Shiraz, Iran, 26-28 December.
8. Payam Rasoulnia and S. Mohammad Mousavi, Bioleaching of Precious Metals from an Oil-Fired Ash Using Organic Acids Produced by Aspergillus niger in Shake Flasks and Bioreactor, 7th International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering – ICCCE 2016, Porto, Portugal.