Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore

© 2016 The Chinese Society of Rare Earths. Leaching of rare earths Y, La and Ce by sulphuric acid from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore was investigated using Taguchi method of experimental design. An orthogonal array of L8, 27 which denotes 7 factors at 2 levels was chosen to consider the various f...

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Main Authors: Lim, Hazel, Ibana, Don, Eksteen, Jacques
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16001
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author Lim, Hazel
Ibana, Don
Eksteen, Jacques
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description © 2016 The Chinese Society of Rare Earths. Leaching of rare earths Y, La and Ce by sulphuric acid from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore was investigated using Taguchi method of experimental design. An orthogonal array of L8, 27 which denotes 7 factors at 2 levels was chosen to consider the various factors relevant to the leaching process: baking time, baking temperature, acid dosage, leaching time, leaching temperature, grind size and dilution. Statistical analysis showed that sulphation baking was a significant step for the leaching of rare earths from the whole-of-ore and optimized leaching of rare earths involved the following condition: baking for 3 h at 320 °C at 3.2 g acid/g ore acid dosage followed by water leaching at 20 °C for 1 h and dilution of 20 mL water/g ore using 300 um grind size. The effect of each leaching factor was also discussed.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-160012018-09-04T00:53:56Z Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore Lim, Hazel Ibana, Don Eksteen, Jacques © 2016 The Chinese Society of Rare Earths. Leaching of rare earths Y, La and Ce by sulphuric acid from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore was investigated using Taguchi method of experimental design. An orthogonal array of L8, 27 which denotes 7 factors at 2 levels was chosen to consider the various factors relevant to the leaching process: baking time, baking temperature, acid dosage, leaching time, leaching temperature, grind size and dilution. Statistical analysis showed that sulphation baking was a significant step for the leaching of rare earths from the whole-of-ore and optimized leaching of rare earths involved the following condition: baking for 3 h at 320 °C at 3.2 g acid/g ore acid dosage followed by water leaching at 20 °C for 1 h and dilution of 20 mL water/g ore using 300 um grind size. The effect of each leaching factor was also discussed. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16001 10.1016/S1002-0721(16)60114-X fulltext
spellingShingle Lim, Hazel
Ibana, Don
Eksteen, Jacques
Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
title Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
title_full Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
title_fullStr Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
title_full_unstemmed Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
title_short Leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
title_sort leaching of rare earths from fine-grained zirconosilicate ore
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16001