摘要:
An improved method for treating manganese-containing materials, such as nodules recovered by undersea mining, including reacting the materials with ammonia, and leaching with a mineral acid, and to methods for recovering valuable constituents from such nodules, especially manganese, cobalt, nickel, iron, copper, titanium, vanadium, cerium, and molybdenum. A method for the production of nitrate products is also disclosed.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a neutralization method capable of reducing the usage amount of expensive high alkaline neutralizer, and applying an efficient neutralization treatment, when applying a neutralization treatment to a barren solution to be produced in a treatment step, in which a sulfide composed of nickel and cobalt is produced from a sulfuric acid aqueous solution containing nickel and cobalt, and impurity metals containing any of iron, magnesium, and manganese at least one or more. The present invention includes a first neutralization treatment step S 11 of applying a neutralization treatment to the barren solution, with a range of pH 5.0 to 6.0 as the end point, by using calcium carbonate slurry, as a first neutralizer; and a second neutralization treatment step S 12 of applying a neutralization treatment to a solution produced in the first neutralization treatment step S 11, by using a second neutralizer, to produce a sediment containing a metal remained in the barren solution and a post-neutralization solution from which a metal ion is removed.
摘要:
We propose a method of removing iron from leach solutions, obtained by leaching of metal bearing materials with acids, in the form of hydroxide and/or oxide by precipitation. The advantages with the method according to the invention include that the method can be performed at atmospheric pressure and at temperatures from ambient to boiling temperatures and that no gases are emitted. Another important advantage is, by prevention of gel formation of the iron precipitate, that solid / liquid separation becomes much easier and loss of valuable metals is minimized.
摘要:
Provided is a hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore using high pressure acid leaching to be capable of achieving improvement of durability of production facilities, simplification of the production facilities, suppression of the cost and environmental risks caused by compression of the volume of a tailings dam that stores wastes, and separation and recovery of impurity components which can be utilized as a resource. The hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore of recovering nickel and cobalt using the high pressure acid leaching is characterized by including at least one step selected from step (A) (a step of separating and recovering chromite particles), step (B-1) (a step of neutralizing a leachate with a magnesium-based neutralizing agent), and step (B-2) (a step of neutralizing a leach residue slurry with the magnesium-based neutralizing agent).
摘要:
Provided is a production method for producing coarse particles of high purity nickel powder from a nickel ammine sulfate complex solution using fine nickel powder and using industrially inexpensive hydrogen gas. The method for producing nickel powder from a nickel ammine sulfate complex solution comprises the following treatment steps of: (1) a seed crystal production step of mixing a nickel sulfate solution and hydrazine to produce nickel powder having an average particle size of 0.1 to 5 µm serving as seed crystals; (2) a seed crystal addition step of adding the nickel powder obtained in the step (1) as seed crystals to the nickel ammine sulfate complex solution to form a mixed slurry; (3) a reduction step of blowing hydrogen gas into the mixed slurry obtained in the seed crystal addition step to form a reduced slurry containing nickel powder formed by precipitation of a nickel component in the mixed slurry on the seed crystals; and (4) a growth step of subjecting the reduced slurry obtained in the reduction step to solid-liquid separation to separate and recover the nickel powder as a solid phase component and then blowing hydrogen gas into a solution prepared by adding the nickel ammine sulfate complex solution to the recovered nickel powder to grow the nickel powder to form high purity nickel powder.
摘要:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method capable of improving the filterability in separating a zinc sulfide produced by applying sulfurization treatment to a post-neutralization solution containing zinc together with nickel and cobalt in a dezincification step, and of prolonging a service life of a filter cloth, in a hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore. The method comprises a neutralization reaction step of neutralizing leachate in a neutralization tank (11); a separation step of separating neutralized slurry into a neutralized sediment and a post-neutralization solution by adding flocculant to the neutralized slurry; a measuring step of measuring the viscosity of the post-neutralization solution; a temporarily storing step of temporarily storing the post-neutralization solution in a storage tank; and a transfer step of transferring the stored post-neutralization solution to a dezincification reaction tank (31) used in a dezincification step S4 subsequent to a neutralization step S3. When the measured viscosity of the post-neutralization solution is higher than 0.10 sec/cm 2 ·mL that is the time required for the post-neutralization solution of 50 mL to pass through a membrane filter having a mesh opening size of 0.45 µm, a flow rate of the post-neutralization solution to be transferred to the dezincification reaction tank (31) is controlled and the post-neutralization solution is circulated by returning back a predetermined rate of the post-neutralization solution to the neutralization reaction tank (11).
摘要:
Provided is a method for neutralizing a sulfuric acid acidic solution, whereby the pH of a neutralized solution can be stabilized, and also provided is a hydrometallurgical method for nickel oxide ores. The hydrometallurgical method comprises a sulfuric acid leaching step of leaching an ore slurry of a nickel oxide ore with sulfuric acid, a neutralization step of neutralizing a crude nickel sulfate aqueous solution by adding a neutralizing agent thereto, and a dezincification step of removing zinc as zinc sulfide by adding a sulfurizing agent to a neutralized solution; wherein in the neutralization step, the amount of the neutralizing agent added is adjusted using, as an index, a neutralizing agent addition ratio that indicates the amount of the neutralizing agent added relative to the amount of free sulfuric acid in the crude nickel sulfate aqueous solution. This method is not affected by changes in the liquid temperature or by neutralized precipitates adhering to a pH meter, can prevent insufficient addition and excessive addition of the neutralizing agent, and can stabilize the pH of the neutralized solution. The removal efficiency of zinc can be maintained in the dezincification step, and the efficiency of solid-liquid separation can be maintained.