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Novel approach to recover rare earth metals (REMs) from Indian coal bottom ash

IR@NML: CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur

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Title Novel approach to recover rare earth metals (REMs) from Indian coal bottom ash
 
Creator Kumari, Archana
Parween, R
Chakravarty, S
Parmar, Kavita
Pathak, D D
Lee, Jae-chun
Jha, Manis K
 
Subject Hydrometallurgy
 
Description CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR-NML), India dealing with coal characterization, has recently made sincere efforts to develop a process to recover REMs from Indian coal bottom ash (CBA) using hydrometallurgical route. The developed process consists of REMs leaching from CBA followed by solvent extraction and selective precipitation. After the selection of suitable leachant, bench scale studies were performed to optimize various process parameters viz. concentration of leachant, mixing time, temperature and pulp density. Maximum dissolution of REMs were achieved using 4 mol/L HCl at .90 degrees C for 2 h and pulp density 50 g/L. Unused acid present in the leach liquor was further extracted and subsequently processed for selective precipitation of REMs at pH 1.67. A novel process flow-sheet is proposed for the effective recovery of highly pure REMs salt. Developed process at laboratory scale has potential to be commercialized after scale-up and feasibility studies.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2019-08
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydromet.2019.04.024
http://eprints.nmlindia.org/7931/
 
Identifier Kumari, Archana and Parween, R and Chakravarty, S and Parmar, Kavita and Pathak, D D and Lee, Jae-chun and Jha, Manis K (2019) Novel approach to recover rare earth metals (REMs) from Indian coal bottom ash. Hydrometallurgy, 187 . pp. 1-7.