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Huge scarcity of rare earth metals (REMs) globally, lack of good natural resources, and generation of tremendous coal ash containing REMs of power plant attracted the researchers to work in this area. The analysis of geologically distributed heterogeneous coal samples at CSIR-NML, India reports the presence of 0.5–1.5 kg/Ton REMs in particular seam of coal at Indian eastern part. In this regard, systematic leaching studies were made to recover REMs from Indian coal ash using hydrometallurgical technique. Maximum dissolution of REMs from coal ash take place using HCl of concentration ranging between 2 and 6 M at elevated temperature. From the obtained leach liquor, more than 90% REMs were recovered using oxalate precipitation . The process developed has tremendous potential to be commercialized after feasibility studies.
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Present paper is based on the research work related to REMs extraction from Indian coal ash carried out at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR-NML), Jamshedpur, India. Authors are thankful to the Director, CSIR-NML for the permission to publish this paper. One of the authors, Ms. Archana Kumari would like to extend her sincere gratitude to CSIR, New Delhi (Grant: 31/10(60)/2015-EMR-I) for providing Senior Research Fellowship to carry out this research work.
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Kumari, A., Jha, M.K., Chakravarty, S., Pathak, D.D. (2020). Indian Coal Ash: A Potential Alternative Resource for Rare Earth Metals (REMs). In: Azimi, G., Forsberg, K., Ouchi, T., Kim, H., Alam, S., Baba, A. (eds) Rare Metal Technology 2020. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36758-9_25
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