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Current State and Problems of Analytical Control of Spent Automobile Catalysts (Review)

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Abstract—Spent Automobile Catalysts (SACs) hold a special place among secondary raw materials containing precious metals. Accurate determination of platinum group metals in SACs plays an important role influencing the economic efficiency of the utilization process. In this work, we review the methods of analysis of SACs available in the literature, as well as methodological developments of the Giredmet Institute in collaboration with Anserteko and NUST “MISiS”. The main emphasis is placed on the use of modern tools for chemical preparation of hard-to-break objects like SACs, including autoclave and microwave opening of the samples. The advantages of the assay concentration method based on developments at the Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant for analysis of SACs are considered. We discuss certified spectroscopic and chemical methods which have been developed for analysis of spent automobile catalysts and outline the ways of their further improvement.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was performed with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation within the framework of agreement 15-33-70037 (the part of the work concerning studying the possibility of applying electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy with continuum source) and the Russian Science Foundation within the Agreement 16-13-10417 (the part of the work concerning studying the properties of sulfur-nitrogen-containing sorbents).

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  1. OOO Anserteko Analytical, Ecological, and Certification Center, Moscow, Russia

    T. Yu. Alekseeva

  2. National University of Science and Technology MISiS, Moscow, Russia

    T. Yu. Alekseeva, Yu. A. Karpov, O. A. Dal’nova, V. V. Es’kina & V. B. Baranovskaya

  3. State Research and Design Institute of the Rare Metals Industry “Giredmet”, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. A. Karpov, O. A. Dal’nova, V. V. Es’kina & V. B. Baranovskaya

  4. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. A. Karpov & V. B. Baranovskaya

  5. AO Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia

    L. D. Gorbatova

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Alekseeva, T.Y., Karpov, Y.A., Dal’nova, O.A. et al. Current State and Problems of Analytical Control of Spent Automobile Catalysts (Review). Inorg Mater 54, 1421–1429 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168518140029

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