Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 346, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117829
Keywords
Ilmenite; Collectors; Adsorption mechanism; Oxygen-containing Functional Group; DFT
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFC0408300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52074356, U20A20269]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2020JJ5759, 2021JJ20069]
- Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China [2020T130188, 2018M642988]
- Changsha Science and Technology Project [kq2009005]
- National 111 Project [B14034]
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This study systematically investigated the coordination chemistry adsorption mechanism of commonly used collectors with oxygen-containing functional groups on the ilmenite surface using first-principles DFT calculations. The results showed that compounds with oxygen-containing pnictogen groups are the best choice for ilmenite beneficiation. The study also explained the chemical bonding mechanism between collectors and ilmenite.
Flotation is the main method to purify ilmenite, the success of flotation is closely related to the effective adsorption of collectors on the mineral surface. Herein, the coordination chemistry adsorption mechanism of the commonly used collectors with oxygen-containing functional groups on ilmenite surface were systematically investigated by first-principles DFT calculations. Adsorption energy results shows that the O bearing pnictogen compounds are the best for ilmenite beneficiation among all the oxygen-containing collectors. In the O-bearing pnictogen compounds, the collection performance of arsenic acid is the best, followed by phosphorous acid and phosphoric acid ester. The frontier molecular orbital analysis predicted that the collectors possessed a good chemical bonding ability with ilmenite, which is confirmed by the charge population analysis that there is significant electron transfer (bonding evidence) between collectors and ilmenite. Partial density of states analysis further confirmed that the physicochemical nature of the adsorption of the collectors on the surface Ti site were ascribed to the hybridization of O 2p and Ti 3d, in which the O 2p electrons of the collectors occupied the empty orbital of Ti 3d to complete the coordination shell of surface Ti atom. This work sheds new light on the screening of solidophilic functional groups for the collector design of ilmenite beneficiation and helps to explain the adsorption mechanism of oxygen-containing collectors on the oxidized mineral surface. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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