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Extraction of Yttrium and Europium with Fatty Acids as Extractants  

Bang, Kyung-Mo (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)
Ryu, Ho-Jin (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)
Choi, Min-Bae (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)
Kang, Ho-Cheol (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.21, no.5, 2010 , pp. 509-513 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, an amount of waste electronic devices such as LED and trichromatic fluorescent lamp has increased with the development of electronic industry. Reportedly, rare earth metals such as yttrium and europium have been discovered in the waste electronic devices. In order to improve the selectivity of yttrium and europium, the effects of the following factors on recovery experiment have been considered : i) fatty acids with various alkyl chain lengths, ii) the concentration of extractant, and iii) pH. The results show that the extraction efficiencies decrease at the same pH with decreasing the concentration of extractant and so $pH_{0.5}$ (That value of pH in an aqueous phase at which the distribution ratio is unity at equilibrium: 50% of the solute is extracted (E = 0.5) only when the phase ratio is unity.) moves into higher pH. The highest selectivity of yttrium and europium was obtained with tetradecanoic acid as extractant. The extraction mechanism of yttrium and europium was varied with the change of concentration of the tetradecanoic acid. $MR_3$single-species was formed from the yttrium and europium ion in the extractant concentration less than 0.1 M. On the other hand, the yttrium or europium ion is solvated with three molecules of tetradecanoic acid monomer like $MR_3{\cdot}$ 3RH in the extractant concentration more than 0.1 M.
Keywords
electronic device; fatty acid; rare earth metal; extraction; recovery;
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