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Precipitation of Metals from Liquor Obtained in Nickel Mining

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REWAS 2016

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In recent years, alternative treatment processes of nickel low-grade ores have been studied for nickel mining. The present work intends to study the precipitation of metals such as nickel, aluminum, cobalt, iron, zinc and copper from liquor obtained in the atmospheric leaching of a limonite nickel waste. Initially, synthetic solutions were prepared to simulate the sulfuric leach liquor. The iron in the first solution was found in the form of ferrous ions (Fe+2), while in the second solution was found as ferric ions (Fe+3). Precipitation tests were carried at 25ºC and pH was varied with KOH additions. Metal concentration in aqueous and solid samples were analyzed by energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) and a scanning by electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), respectively. Around 100% of iron, 60% of cobalt and 10% of copper were precipitated at pH 3,0 from the solution with ferric ions, while in the solution with ferrous ions, the highest metal precipitation were achieved at pH 5,5.

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  1. Chemical Engineering Dep., Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, 158 Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, Trav. 3, Caixa postal 61548, São Paulo, SP, 05424-970, Brazil

    Mónica M. Jiménez Correa, Paula Aliprandini, Jorge A. Soares Tenório & Denise Crocce Romano Espinosa

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  1. Department Materials Engineering of KU Leuven, Belgium

    Bart Blanpain (full professor, co-director for the I/UCRC ‘Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling’, co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy) (full professor, co-director for the I/UCRC ‘Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling’, co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy)

  2. Umicore Precious Metals Refining, Hoboken, Belgium

    Christina Meskers (senior manager and leading the Market Intelligence and Business Research team) (senior manager and leading the Market Intelligence and Business Research team)

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, USA

    Elsa Olivetti (Thomas Lord Assistant Professor) (Thomas Lord Assistant Professor)

  4. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA

    Diran Apelian (Alcoa-Howmet Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) & Brajendra Mishra (Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assoc. Director of the Metal Processing Institute, Director of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Resource Recovery & Recycling) (Alcoa-Howmet Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) &  (Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assoc. Director of the Metal Processing Institute, Director of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Resource Recovery & Recycling)

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    John Howarter (assistant professor in materials engineering) (assistant professor in materials engineering)

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    Anne Kvithyld (senior research scientist) (senior research scientist)

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Correa, M.M.J., Aliprandini, P., Tenório, J.A.S., Espinosa, D.C.R. (2016). Precipitation of Metals from Liquor Obtained in Nickel Mining. In: Kirchain, R.E., et al. REWAS 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48768-7_52

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