申请人:Huang Xiaowei
公开号:US08808660B2
公开(公告)日:2014-08-19
The present invention relates to a method of precipitation of metal ions. Mineral(s), oxide(s), hydroxide(s) of magnesium and/or calcium are adopted as raw materials, and the raw material(s) is processed through at least one step of calcination, slaking, or carbonization to produce aqueous solution(s) of magnesium bicarbonate and/or calcium bicarbonate, and then the solution(s) is used as precipitant(s) to deposit rare earth, such as nickel, cobalt, iron, aluminum, gallium, indium, manganese, cadmium, zirconium, hafnium, strontium, barium, copper and zinc ions. And at least one of metal carbonates, hydroxides or basic carbonates is obtained, or furthermore the obtained products are calcined to produce metal oxides. The invention takes the cheap calcium and/or magnesium minerals or their oxides, hydroxides with low purity as raw materials to instead common precipitants such as ammonium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate etc. The calcium, magnesium, carbon dioxide etc are efficiently and circularly used, and the environment pollution by ammonium-nitrogen wastewater, high concentration salts wastewater is avoided, and both of the discharge of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and the production cost of metal are decreased.
本发明涉及一种
金属离子沉淀的方法。采用
镁和/或
钙的矿物质、氧化物、羟基化物作为原材料,将原材料经过至少一步煅烧、
消石灰或碳化处理,生成
镁重
碳酸盐和/或
钙重
碳酸盐的
水溶液,然后将该溶液用作沉淀剂,沉淀稀土,如
镍、
钴、
铁、铝、
镓、
铟、
锰、
镉、
锆、
铪、
锶、
钡、
铜和
锌离子。至少得到一种
金属
碳酸盐、羟化物或碱性
碳酸盐,或者进一步将所得产物煅烧以产生金属氧化物。本发明利用廉价的
钙和/或
镁矿物或其低纯度的氧化物、羟基化物代替常见的沉淀剂,如
碳酸铵和
碳酸钠等。高效循环利用
钙、
镁、
二氧化碳等,避免了
铵氮废
水、高浓度盐类废
水对环境的污染,同时减少了温室气体
二氧化碳的排放和
金属的生产成本。