metal recovery, pilot-scale operations, technology scale-up, data analysis tools, mass balances, bioleaching, process flows, Gmp, Process Simulation, Hydrometallurgy, Glp, laboratory-scale bioreactors, Analytical Techniques, process monitoring, biochemical bioprocess operations, scale-up principles, microbial processes, Process Control, Fermentation, industrial R&D environments, recycling of electronic waste or batteries