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List of abbreviations
a.p.f.u.: atoms per formula unit
ARE: artificial root exudates
AS: agitation speed
AS: amorphous slag
Bn: bornite
CS: crystalline slag
d.l.: detection limit
Di: diopside
EDS: energy dispersive system
Fa: fayalite
FA: fulvic acid
Gl: glass
GM: growth medium
GMB: growth medium with bacteria
GS: granulated slag
h: hour
HA: humic acid
HS: historical slag
LS: leaching solution
LS: lead slag
LS: liquid to solid ratio
LT: leaching time
n.a.: not analysed
PD: pulp density
Po: pyrrhotite
PS: particle size
S/L: solid to liquid ratio
SEM: scanning electron microscope
SFS: shaft furnace slag
Sp: sphalerite
T: temperature
UPW: ultrapure water
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to the members of ETeCoS
3
selection committee:
Dr. Hab. Eric van Hullebusch (University of Paris-Est, France), Dr. Hab. Giovanni Esposito
(University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), Prof. Piet Lens (UNESCO-IHE, The
Netherlands) and Dr. David Huguenot (University of Paris-Est, France) for giving me this
excellent opportunity of participating in Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme that enabled
me to gain valuable professional and personal experience.
I would particularly like to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to promotor of this PhD
thesis Dr. Hab. Eric van Hullebusch for his guidance of my research activity, help and
valuable advices on development of the work as well as enormous support and strong
encouragement throughout entire PhD research.
I am grateful to co-promotor of the PhD thesis Prof. Piet Lens for his supervision during my
mobility stay at UNESCO-IHE (Delft) and extensive discussions concerning the PhD work.
I am appreciative of Dr. Malgorzata Grybos co-supervisor of the PhD thesis for her profound
comments and suggestions on this work, supervision during my mobility stay at GRESE
laboratory (Limoges) as well as her kind support during these 3 years.
I would also like to thank Prof. Gilles Guibaud for hosting me in the GRESE laboratory and
giving me constructive remarks on the PhD work.
I also owe my thankfulness to Dr. Jakub Kierczak for his persistent optimism regarding this
research, advices towards improvement of the work, his affable support as well as time
devoted to many valuable discussions during the collaboration.
I am also highly indebted to many people with whom the collaboration developed in frame of
this PhD work: Prof. Yves Fuchs, Dr. Isabelle Bourven, Dr. Jack van de Vossenberg and
Dr. Eldon R. Rene. I am equally grateful to Dr. David Huguenot and Patrice Fondaneche for
their assistance in ICP analyses as well as to Dr. Michel Fialin and Dr. Omar Boudouma for
assistance in the microprobe and SEM analyzes carried out at University Pierre et Marie
Curie.
I wish to extend my thanks to the reviewers of this PhD thesis Prof. Vojtěch Ettler and
Prof. Emmanuel Guillon for agreeing to evaluate and examine this work.
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I am thankful to the host institutions where the research has been conducted Laboratoire
Géomatériaux et Environnement (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), Groupement de
Recherche Eau Sol Environnement (Université de Limoges) and UNESCO-IHE for providing
research facilities, technical stuff for professional assistance and people working there for
creating a friendly atmosphere during the course of my work.
The scholarship donor Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency is thanked for
providing financial support under the grant agreement FPA n°2010–0009.
I would like to thank my colleagues from ETeCoS
3
programme for sharing good moments of
PhD time.
I am also truly thankful to my friend Barbara for her support and motivating me to perceive
difficulty as the simplicity.
The foremost thanks I would like to assign to my parents, my sister Magda and Grzegorz for
their continuous and unlimited support, understanding and patience. I would especially like to
dedicate thanks to my sister Magda for her accompany even while being apart and her endless
support which enabled me to materialize my dream of completing this work into reality.
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