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Advanced hydrometallurgical separation processes are gaining significant importance for the recovery of gold from the aqueous solutions viz. leach liquor of waste electronics, plating material solutions, and waste wash water from electronic industries. In the present investigation, gold adsorption from the waste rinse water of semiconductor manufacturing industries is reported using Amberlite XAD-7HP. For experimental purposes, chloride waste rinse water that contained primarily Au (281 mg/ L) with trace amounts of Cu, Ni, Zn, Sn etc was used. Batch studies were carried out to optimize various process parameters, including contact time, acidity of solution, and resin dosage for the adsorption of gold from the above waste effluent. Adsorption of 92.25% gold was found from the waste solution within a contact time of 30 minutes at an aqueous to resin (A/R) ratio of 25 mL/g and an equilibrium pH of 0.63. In optimal conditions, the loading capacity of resin for gold was observed to be 58.82 mg of gold/g of resin. The gold adsorption phenomena were confirmed by the comparative FT-IR spectroscopic characterization studies of fresh resin and gold loaded resin. Elution tests were carried out for the elution of gold from the gold loaded resin using various ratio mixtures of acetone and 1.0 M HCl. An elution efficiency of 96.96% gold was achieved at an acetone-to-acid ratio of 9. In this condition, gold-enriched solution containing 7,240 mg gold/ L was obtained. The maximum elution of gold was found to be 99.33% using pure acetone in a contact time of 30 minutes. The data obtained will be useful to simulate the continuous gold adsorption process within a column.
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Nguyen Van Nghiem graduated master degree in Chung Nam National University (in 2008). Now, he is a doctoral student in University of Science and Technology (UST, South Korea). His major is resources recycling, and his research activities focus on recovering metals from waste solutions using solvent extraction and ion exchange.
Dr. Jae-chun Lee is currently Principal Researcher in the Mineral Resources Research Division at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), and an adjunct professor of Resources Recycling at the University of Science and Technology (UST) at Daejeon, Korea. His research deals with leaching, separation and purification of metals from primary and secondary resources, and material preparation by aqueous processing.
Dr. Soo-kyoung Kim is a Senior Researcher in the Mineral Resources Research Division of Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). His research focuses on the refining of metals by the electrochemical method and hydrometallurgical recycling of industrial wastes.
Dr. Manis Kumar Jha is currently Assistant Director in Metal Extraction & Forming Division, National Metallurgical Laboratory (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research), Jamshedpur, India. His area of expertise is metal extraction from ores, concentrates and secondary & recycling of metals from solid wastes and liquid effluents using hydrometallurgical processes.
Dr. Kang-Sup Chung is currently Principal Researcher in the Mineral Resources Research Division at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). His research deals with synthesis of nanosize colloidal gold and its optical properties and recently focuses on the recovery of Li from seawater using nano-manganese oxide adsorbent.
Dr. Jinki Jeong is currently Principal Researcher in the Mineral Resources Research Division at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), and an adjunct professor of Resources Recycling at the University of Science and Technology (UST) at Daejeon, Korea. His research focuses on metal separation and process optimization in the processing of waste water treatment and recycling of industrial wastes.
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Nguyen, N.V., Lee, Jc., Kim, Sk. et al. Adsorption of gold(III) from waste rinse water of semiconductor manufacturing industries using Amberlite XAD-7HP resin. Gold Bull 43, 200–208 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03214987
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