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Acid Retardation Method and Its New Variants for the Separation of Components of Complex Solutions

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The method of Acid Retardation for processing concentrated multicomponent solutions with separation of salts and acids in nanoporous sorption materials is described. A sieve-type separation mechanism is proposed. In the phase of a sorption material with a low dielectric constant, concentrated acids form molecules or weakly hydrated ion pairs of small size, which easily penetrate into nanopores and are retained there due to the forces of molecular sorption. Salts, which form more hydrated and weakly bound ion pairs, pass through the porous medium without retardation. Standard cyclic AR- processes are applicable only when the salts separated from the acid are readily soluble. In real multicomponent solutions of sulfate or phosphate type, containing iron, alkaline earth metals, the standard method is useless. A new version of Acid Retardation method relevant for chemical technology, is proposed. This variant is based on the regularities of stabilization of supersaturated solutions and colloidal systems in highly porous media. A distinctive feature of the proposed option is the use of diluted acidic solutions instead of water at the stages of concentrated acid displacement in each cycle of the AR-process. The examples of processing industrial solutions with simultaneous recovery of pure acids and isolation of valuable components are presented. Another variant of AR method in which the separation is carried out in a sorption column with two immiscible liquid phases is also proposed. The modified AR-processes are promising for using in chemical engineering and sample preparing for chemical analyses.

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the authors are grateful to: V. P. Kolotov for his help in organizing the analysis of REE concentrates; G. B. Sidelnikov (Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University) for his help in writing programs and performing calculations; M. N. Tsikin, V. V. Dolgov, V. S. Sushchev and Yu. D. Chernenko, V. V. Sokolov (NIUIF named after V. Ya. Samoilov) for help in organizing and conducting bench tests, S. Kh. Khamizov, A. N. Smirnov and all employees of NewKem Technology LLC and Scientific and Production Enterprise JSC SPE “Radiy” for the creation and provision of a bench-scale installation and for assistance in its testing.

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Khamizov, R.K., Krachak, A.N., Vlasovskikh, N.S., Gruzdeva, A.N. (2023). Acid Retardation Method and Its New Variants for the Separation of Components of Complex Solutions. In: Kolotov, V.P., Bezaeva, N.S. (eds) Advances in Geochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09883-3_30

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