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http://dx.doi.org/10.7844/kirr.2014.23.2.53

Separation and Recovery of Tin and Indium from Spent ITO Sludge  

Lee, Ki-Woong (Research & Development Centre, Sungeel Hi-Tech Ltd.)
Kim, Hong-In (Research & Development Centre, Sungeel Hi-Tech Ltd.)
Son, Hyun-Tae (Research & Development Centre, Sungeel Hi-Tech Ltd.)
Ahn, Jae-Woo (Dept. of Advanced Materials & Science, Daejin University)
Kim, Yong-Hwan (Advanced Process and Materials R&D Group, Korean Institute of Industrial Technology)
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Resources Recycling / v.23, no.2, 2014 , pp. 53-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to separate Indium and Tin from spent indium tin oxide (ITO) sludge, direct hydrochloric acid leaching and thermal reduction followed by HCl leaching were applied. In case of direct leaching of spent ITO, leaching rate of In and Sn was 18.5% and 19.95%, respectively. Whereas, in case of thermal hydrogen treatment of ITO sludge at different temperatures such as $700^{\circ}C$, $800^{\circ}C$, $900^{\circ}C$ and $1100^{\circ}C$, followed by HCl leaching, we obtained the result of more than 97% leaching rate of Sn. Specially, thermal treatment at $800^{\circ}C$ showed the highest leaching rate of 98.2% of Sn. Precipitation method was used for separation and recovery of Sn from leached mixed solution. If the solution pH were adjusted 2.0, 99.69% of Sn precipitated and 10.3% of In was precipitated. This confirmed the possibility of separation of Sn and In from leached solution by precipitation method.
Keywords
Hydrochloric acid leaching; Hydrogrn reduction; ITO sludge; Tin Recovery;
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