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Recovery of zinc(II) from HCl spent pickling solutions by solvent extraction
M Regel1, A M Sastre, J Szymanowski
1Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Pl. M. Sklodowskiej-Curie 2, 60-965 Poznan.
Abstract:
Recovery of zinc(II) from HCl spent pickling solutions by solvent extraction using CYANEX921, CYANEX923, CYANEX302, tributyl phosphate, and ALAMINE336 extractants was studied. Tributyl phosphate was selected as suitable extractant. It permitted both effective zinc(II) extraction and the stripping from loaded organic phase with water. The presence of iron(II) did not affect zinc extraction, and only negligible oxidation of iron(II) was observed during extraction experiments. CYANEX reagents and ALAMINE336 extracted zinc(II) strongly, but the stripping with water was ineffective. Moreover, a significant oxidation of iron(II) to iron(III) occurred during extraction. Each of three reagents (CYANEX923, ALAMINE336 and TBP) extracted iron(III) very well. Thus, if iron(III) was present in the spent pickling solution, prior to the extraction it had to be reduced to iron(II). The oxidation was low for tributyl phosphate and high for CYANEX923 and ALAMINE336. CYANEX302 was inactive both for zinc(II) and iron(III) and could not be used for extraction of zinc(II) from spent pickling hydrochloric acid solutions.
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