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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grimes, Sue M.
• Yasri, Nael G.
• Chaudhary, Abdul J.

Titel

Recovery of critical metals from dilute leach solutions – Separation of indium from tin and lead

Ist Teil von

• Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017-05, Vol.461, p.161-166

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The strategic metal indium is recovered from solutions containing tin and lead – typical of those leach solutions of metal component fractions from electronic waste – using a novel cylindrical mesh electrode electrolysis cell under controlled conditions of acidity of solution and concentration levels of the complexing agent, SCN−. [Display omitted] •Recovery of indium, a strategic metal.•Separation of indium, tin and lead.•A cylindrical mesh electrode electrolysis cell. The strategic metal indium is recovered from solutions containing tin and lead that are typical of those obtained from leach solutions of metal component fractions of electronic waste including the leach solutions from indium tin oxide thin film conductive layers that contain only indium and tin. Almost total recovery of the metals can be achieved from nitric, perchloric and acetic acid leach solutions using a novel cylindrical mesh electrode electrolysis cell under appropriate conditions. The optimum separation of indium from tin and lead is achieved by a novel three-stage process from nitric acid media in the presence of SCN− as a complexing agent. Lead is removed from dilute indium-tin-lead solutions in the first stage from 0.1molL−1 nitric acid solution by electrodeposition over an 8h period in the absence of SCN− to give a residual solution containing a maximum of 2mgL−1 of lead (97% recovery). Tin is removed in the second stage by electrodeposition over an 8h period from the solution after addition of 0.02molL−1 SCN− to give a maximum residual electrolyte tin concentration of 3mgL−1 (94% recovery). In the third stage indium is recovered at the anode of the cylindrical mesh electrode cell as an oxy-hydroxide phase by increasing the SCN− concentration to 0.1molL−1 and carrying out the electrolysis for a period of 24h to give a residual solution containing 1mgL−1 of indium (98% recovery).