EXTRACTION PROCESS
    2.
    发明公开
    EXTRACTION PROCESS 有权
    铀提取方法

    公开(公告)号:EP2531626A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-12

    申请号:EP11739438.7

    申请日:2011-01-27

    申请人: Outotec OYJ

    IPC分类号: C22B3/38 C22B60/02 C01G43/00

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for the selective recovery of uranium from a sulphate-based acidic aqueous solution of uranium containing iron and other metals by means of solvent extraction, in which the extractant used in the organic extraction solution is bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate and a liquid branched trialkyl phosphine oxide is the modifying agent. It is typical of the method that the uranium concentration in the feed solution is less than 50 mg/l and a reducing agent is introduced into the aqueous and/or extraction solution to prevent the permanent oxidation of iron to trivalent. In the method the majority of the extraction solution is circulated in a circuit consisting of the extraction stage and the storage tank and only a small part of the uranium-loaded extraction solution is routed to scrubbing and stripping.