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http://dx.doi.org/10.7844/kirr.2017.26.5.39

Double Salt Precipitation Behavior of Rare Earth by Sodium Sulfate in Sulfuric Liquor of Waste Permanent Magnet Scrap  

Yoon, Ho-Sung (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Kim, Chul-Joo (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Chung, Kyeong Woo (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Kim, Ji-Hye (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Lee, Eun-Ji (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Yoo, Seung-Joon (Department of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, Seonam University)
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Resources Recycling / v.26, no.5, 2017 , pp. 39-47 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the precipitation of rare earth-sodium sulfate with sodium sulfate was conducted in order to separate rare earth from Fe in rare earth sulfate solution. Neodymium (Nd) was easily precipitated as Nd-sulfate salt with sodium sulfate, on the other hand, excessive sodium sulfate was needed for the precipitation of Dy-sulfate salt. Also neodymium not only promoted the precipitation of dysprosium sulfate salt but also increased recovery of dysprosium sulfate salt in sulfuric acid solution. At the condition of $60^{\circ}C$ precipitation temperature, 3 h reaction time, 7 equivalents sodium sulfate, the recovery of neodymium and dysprosium sulfate salt was 99.7% and 94.3% respectively from the sulfuric acid solution containing Nd of 23.39 mg/ml and Dy of 8.67 mg/ml. Lastly, from the results of separation of Dy to Nd by the method of sulfate double salt, the effect of salting out with NaCl is important to increase the grade of Dy, and 98.7% of Dy grade could be obtained in this study.
Keywords
permanent magnet; scrap; leaching; neodymium; dysprosium; sulfate double salt precipitation;
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