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Effect of Attrition Scrubbing on the Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from Spent Automobile Catalytic Converters  

Kim, Wan-Tae (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Hyung-Seok (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Cho, Sung-Baek (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Lee, Jae-Chun (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Sang-Bae (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Resources Recycling / v.17, no.5, 2008 , pp. 28-36 More about this Journal
Abstract
The effect of attrition scrubbing on the recovery of platinum group metals (PGMs) from automobile catalytic converters has been investigated. Catalytic converters were first crushed into particles less than 2 mm and attrition scrubbed in the range of 60 min, and then they were sieved with several screens. The catalyst layer, $\gamma$-alumina, was dislodged from the surface of the supporting matrix into fine particles less than $45{\mu}m$ by attrition scrubbing. The fraction of fine particles less than $45{\mu}m$ increased as the residence time for attrition scrubbing increased. The composition of the fine fraction obtained at a residence time of 40 min was $CeO_2$ 19.3%, $ZrO_2$ 1.9% and PGMs 419 ppm. In the fine fraction, the recovery of y-alumina increased proportionally to the residence time. Simultaneously, the recovery rates of $CeO_2$, $ZrO_2$ and PGMs increased to 82.9%, 78.7% and 78.9%, respectively. The production of the fine fraction less than $45{\mu}m$ and the recovery of $\gamma$-alumina increased when the solid concentration and initial feed size increased. Therefore, the attrition scrubbing as the comminution and separation process was concerned to be effective for the recovery of catalyst layer from ceramic supporting matrix by physical impact and shearing action between particles in the scrubbing vessel.
Keywords
Attrition Scrubbing; Platinum Group Metal; Recovery; Catalytic Converter;
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