Sulfuric acid leaching for capturing value from copper rich converter slag Muhammad Kamran Khalid a, Joseph Hamuyuni a, Vivek Agarwal a, Jouni Pihlasalo b, Mika Haapalainen b, Mari Lundstrom€ a, * a Aalto University, School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Box 16200, FI 00076, Aalto, Finland b Outotec Research Center, Kuparitie 10, PO .
Sulfuric acid, the leaching agent, is brought on site in large tankers The sulfuric acid is, The copper is ready with no need for smelting, Second, the leach solution and the sulfuric acid can spill as they are piped around the facility There is....
The smelter for sulfide ores produces sulfur dioxide gas. This is scrubbed from the flue gases to make sulfuric acid for leaching copper from oxide ores. Scrubbing sulfur dioxide also protects the environment. A byproduct of the smelting and converting furnaces is sulfuric acid. In what looks like a lucky coincidence, sulfuric acid is needed ...
Sulfuric acid leaching for capturing value from copper. Apr 01, 2019 Therefore, in this research work, factors that affect the leaching efficiency of copper such as temperature, acid concentration, mixing power and particle size have been studied systematically using sulfuric acid.
Sulfuric acid leaching ( M, 50 °C for 60 min), followed by a chemical exchange using Fe powder (ratio Fe:Cu 5:1, pH, 50 °C, 200 rpm), could precipitate 95% copper from the leach liquor [12].
Unlike the reported leaching technologies of waste superalloys, the process of the "atomized spraysulfuric acid leaching nickel and cobalt" technology was put forward in the present work according to the compositions of waste superalloys. The effects of sulfuric acid temperature, concentration, leaching time, stirring speed and size of superalloys on leaching of Ni and Co from waste ...
A copper oxide ore leaching method that does not utilize sulfuric acid, which comprises an aqueous solution of tricarboxylic acid mixed in water (the acidity in the mixture varies between pH and ). A step of impregnating the copper ore with an organic nonpolluting leachate, a step of obtaining copper citrate, and optionally washing the impregnated copper ore again with an organic non ...
· Heap leaching with sulfuric acid is only able to efficiently recover Cu from certain species of minerals. Table 1: Economically extracted copper minerals and their heap leaching performance
The copper(II) oxide powder can be provided in approximately 1 g quantities in labelled specimen tubes or plastic weighing boats. Dilute sulfuric acid, H 2 SO 4 (aq), (IRRITANT at concentration used) – see CLEAPSS Hazcard HC098a. 20 cm 3 of the dilute sulfuric acid .
A new concept for copper (Cu) metal leaching by the simultaneous use of cupric ions (Cu2+) and oxygen (O2) was proposed to improve Cu metal leaching in sulfuric acid. According to this concept, Cu2+ oxidizes Cu metal into cuprous ion (Cu+), and O2 oxidizes Cu+ into Cu2+. The improvement in Cu leaching efficiency from Cu metal was investigated experimentally in the sulfuric acid solution using ...
· Heap leaching is successfully used to extract gold, silver, copper, nickel, and uranium. The largest heap leach for gold is at the Yanacocha mine in Peru, second only to Veladero in Argentina. Heap leaching is used in tandem with electrowinning, for copper extraction; approximately 16% of the world's total copper production is extracted in this way.
· For copper in the leached solution, sulfate bath was made by adding few drops of sulfuric acid and evaporating all the nitric acid. It was titrated to get the amount of copper present. For recovery, Cementation was carried out at 60 °C till all copper was recovered. 3. Results and Discussion
· According to the equation of Nd transformation rate in the sulfuric acid leaching process under different sulfuric acid concentration conditions, the reaction series of sulfuric acid concentration K =, which is greater than 1, indiing that increasing sulfuric acid concentration can change the kineticcontrol region and strengthen the kinetic process.
Insitu leaching of copper was done by the Chinese by 977 AD, and perhaps as early as 177 BC. Copper is usually leached using acid (sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid), then recovered from solution by solvent extraction electrowinning (SXEW) or by chemical most amenable to leaching include the copper carbonates malachite and azurite, the oxide tenorite, and the silie ...
Acid Leaching Tests on a Highly Oxidized Copper Ore in . The extraction of copper from highly oxidized copper ore in sulfuric acid solutions was examined in Yunnan Province During the leaching of copper the leaching rate of cuprous concentration was affected by various parameters such as particle size leaching time the weight ratio of liquid to solid and the consumption of sulfuric acid etc
· There are several ways to extract rare earth metals from their carrier minerals, such as direct leaching using sulfuric acid at temperatures of 155–230°C, alkali cracking using a sodium hydroxide solution at 140°C, roasting using sodium carbonate at 900°C, and alkaline fusion using flakes of sodium hydroxide at 400–500°C.
Sulfuric acid, the leaching agent, is brought on site in large tankers. The sulfuric acid is diluted and sprayed or dripped over oxide ore, ... (Sulfuric acid/Copper) 5/05/98 40,000 gals. Leach Solution (Sulfuric acid/Copper) 5/04/98 ...
Intensifiion of Sulfuric Acid Leaching of Copper from ... It has been established that the use of Fe(III) ions and ozone can significantly intensify the recovery of .
Chemolithotrophic bacteria in copper ores leached at high sulfuric Acid concentration. Vasquez M, Espejo RT. Extensive bacterial growth was observed when copper sulfide ores were leached with N sulfuric acid. ... possibly related to "L. ferrooxidans," can develop during leaching at high sulfuric acid .
In this article, the sulfuric acid leaching of industrially produced waste LIBs scraps with % cobalt (Co), % lithium (Li) and % copper (Cu) was investigated. The industrially produced LIBs scraps were shown to provide higher Li and Co leaching extractions compared to dissolution of corresponding amount of pure LiCoO 2.
The leaching behavior of copper from Cu 2 O in H 2 SO 4 solution was investigated to establish the leaching process for hode powders produced by the recycling of waste printed circuit boards. When air was not introduced in sulfuric acid solution, the dissolution of copper from Cu 2 O was inhibited by the formation of elemental copper (Cu 0).The dissociated cuprous ions (Cu +) transformed ...