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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 177, Issue 1-3, Pages 377-383Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.12.042
Keywords
Emulsion liquid membrane; Crystallization; High-purity silver; Dilute effluents; Hypophosphorous acid
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- Huiyuan Environmental Protection Co. Ltd. of Guangdong Province
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An emulsion liquid membrane (ELM)-crystallization process, using hypophosphorous acid as a reducing agent in the internal aqueous phase, has been developed for the purpose of recovering high-purity silver directly from dilute industrial effluents (waste rinse water). After pretreatment with HNO(3), silver in waste rinse water can be reliably recovered with high efficiency through the established process. The main parameters in the process of ELM-crystallization include the concentration of carrier in the membrane phase, the concentration of reducing agent in the internal aqueous phase, and the treatment ratio, which influence the recovery efficiency to various extents and must be controlled carefully. The results indicated that more than 99.5% (wt.) of the silver ions in the external aqueous phase were extracted by the ELM-crystallization process, with an average efficiency of recovery of 99.24% (wt.) and a purity of 99.92% (wt.). The membrane phase can be used repeatedly without loss of the efficiency of recovery. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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