期刊
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
卷 6, 期 1, 页码 1478-1488出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03968
关键词
Sustainable process design; Rare earth elements; Scandium; Jamaican bauxite; Red mud; Remediation techniques
资金
- WPI
- NSF [IIP-0968839, IIP-1464560]
We report the development of a process allowing the selective, sustainable recovery of scandium (Sc) with 75% efficiency from Jamaican bauxite residue (red mud), a waste product from aluminum production. The process design is inspired by green chemistry principles and focuses on establishing highly selective process steps (sulfation, leaching, and precipitation) in order to minimize costs and waste produced. In addition to scandium oxide, the chosen approach produces mixed rare earth oxides as a side product, thus isolating an average of 88% of all rare earth elements contained in red mud. Furthermore, in light of predicted supply shortages of the critical material Sc and the need to establish cost-effective bauxite residue remediation techniques, a systematic Monte Carlo-based economic performance assessment framework is developed in order to evaluate the economic prospects of the proposed process system in the presence of irreducible uncertainty.
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