• Patent Title: Electrolytic system for precipitating metals and regenerating the oxidising agents used in the leaching of metals, scrap metal, metal sulphurs, sulphide minerals, raw materials containing metals from solutions from leaching, including a process for combining the precipitation and the oxidation in a single step, eliminating the steps of filtration, washing, transportation and manipulation of highly toxic reagents
  • Application No.: US15548918
    Application Date: 2016-02-04
  • Publication No.: US10480088B2
    Publication Date: 2019-11-19
  • Inventor: Jaime Roberto Simpson Alvarez
  • Applicant: PROTECH SPA
  • Applicant Address: CL Santiago
  • Assignee: PROTECH SPA
  • Current Assignee: PROTECH SPA
  • Current Assignee Address: CL Santiago
  • Priority: CL274-2015 20150204
  • International Application: PCT/CL2016/050005 WO 20160204
  • International Announcement: WO2016/123726 WO 20160811
  • Main IPC: C25C1/12
  • IPC: C25C1/12 C25C7/06 C22B3/04 C25C1/08 C25C1/16 C25C1/20 C25C7/00 C25C7/04 C22B3/42 C25B1/26 C25B9/08 C22B15/00 C25B1/30 C25D17/00 C25D17/02
Electrolytic system for precipitating metals and regenerating the oxidising agents used in the leaching of metals, scrap metal, metal sulphurs, sulphide minerals, raw materials containing metals from solutions from leaching, including a process for combining the precipitation and the oxidation in a single step, eliminating the steps of filtration, washing, transportation and manipulation of highly toxic reagents
Abstract:
The invention relates to a combined electrolytic system for precipitating different types of metals (copper, zinc, nickel, cadmium, cobalt, silver, gold) and regenerating reagents for the leaching of metal sulphurs from solutions from leaching in a sulphuric-oxidising or hydrochloric-oxidising environment, including a process that permits the combining of the current reduction processes followed by oxidising processes which are complex and potentially dangerous from an environmental point of view, thereby preventing the risky transportation of dangerous substances, loading and unloading operations, storage and manipulation of toxic materials, and reducing the environmentally contaminating waste, producing a commercial-quality cathodic product and a solution that is re-used in the leaching process. The system comprises a membrane cell device (3) that is connected via ducts and valves to one or more oxidising agent tanks (7), to one or more anodic solution tanks (6) and to one or more cathodic solution tanks (2), wherein said membrane device (3) is formed by one or more cathodic compartments (4) and by one or more anode compartments (5), wherein each of the cathodic compartment(s) (4) is/are separated from each of the anode compartment(s) (5) by a membrane for selective and uni-directional ion exchange.
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