期刊
HYDROMETALLURGY
卷 213, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2022.105916
关键词
Resource recovery; Critical raw material; Membrane filtration; TiO2 chloride route; Waste valorisation
资金
- European Union [730105]
- Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) [16.0155]
- University of Basel
This study successfully optimized a polymer inclusion membrane (PIMs) system to selectively recover scandium from waste materials, increasing its concentration by more than two orders of magnitude. This research provides a new solution to alleviate the scarcity and unreliable supply of the rare earth element scandium.
Scandium is a raw material with properties that promise considerable potential for application in alloys to enable aviation fuel savings and as dopants for use in sustainable energy production using solid oxide fuel cells. Despite these attractive properties, scandium is rarely used due to its scarcity and unreliable supply. Therefore, new strategies for scandium recovery are of economic priority. In this study, polymer inclusion membranes (PIMs) consisting of PVDF-HFP, 2-NPOE and DEHPA, were optimised for selective scandium separation from real TiO2 production waste. With the optimised system, >60% of the scandium was recovered with high selectivity, resulting in scandium mole fraction at more than two orders of magnitude higher in the receiving phase than in the original waste. This suggests PIMs may be an effective way to recover scandium from bulk waste, thus easing the scarcity and insecurity that currently limit its bulk application.
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