期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
卷 10, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2022.108000
关键词
Citric acid; Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries; Rare earth elements (REEs); Recovery; Selective precipitation; Subcritical water extraction (SWE)
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST-109-2221-E-011-083]
This study successfully recovered rare earth elements from spent nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries using subcritical water extraction (SWE) with citric acid as the leaching reagent. The results showed that leaching efficiency increased with increasing acid concentration, reaction time, and temperature, while it decreased as the solid to liquid ratio (S/L) increased. Selective precipitation with diluted waste phosphoric acid (H3PO4) further enhanced the recovery efficiency.
Spent nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries contain high concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs), nickel (Ni), and cobalt (Co). Subcritical water extraction (SWE) process with citric acid as the leaching reagent was applied to spent NiMH batteries. The effects of acid concentration, solid to liquid ratio (S/L), reaction time, and reaction temperature were examined. Leaching efficiency increased with increasing acid concentration, reaction time and temperature, and decreased as S/L increased. Total of 90.85% of lanthanum (La), 88.84% of cerium (Ce), 90.85% of neodymium (Nd), 90.70% of Ni, and 91.62% of Co were leached out using 2.0 N of citric acid, S/L of 10 g/L, at 150 degrees C in 5 min. Selective precipitation of REEs was induced by the addition of diluted waste phosphoric acid (H3PO4) to the leaching solutions. At [H3PO4]: [REEs] of 10:1, pH 2.0, and 65 degrees C, 99.3% of La, 98.8% of Ce, and 99.0% of Nd were precipitated, which correspond to overall recovery of 90.2% of La, 87.8% of Ce, and 89.8% of Nd. The results showed that SWE using citric acid followed by selective precipitation with H3PO4 could effectively recover REEs from spent NiMH batteries.
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