Metallurgie Hoboken-overpelt

Antoine L Van Peteghem

Achille J De Schepper

Marc Coussement

Guy G Haesebroek

Andre Van Der Heyden

Jozef Hiemeleers

A process using an extractant, that consists on the one hand of an active component being substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline and on the other hand of by-products of the manufacture of said extractant, said process being characterized in that the extractant contains at least 90 wt % of the active component.

Metal extraction process with substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline

Germanium is separated from an aqueous solution by means of a substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline extractant. Re-extraction of germanium from the extractant is carried out above 40.degree. C. and with an organic phase: aqueous phase volume ratio less than 1, whereby obtaining a high re-extraction yield.

Process for separating germanium from an aqueous solution

A substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline is added to the alphahydroxyoxime extractant, which allows extracting germanium at lower acidity and with a better yield.

Process for separating germanium from an aqueous solution by means of an

A multistage liquid-liquid extraction apparatus of the mixer-settler type, which is especially suited for performing liquid-liquid extractions accompanied by the formation of a solid phase, comprises a vessel the side-wall of which defines a cylinder or a regular polygonal body, the vessel being divided by means of radial partitions into sectors, each sector comprising a mixer and a settler, and the mixers and the settlers being located near the side-wall of the vessel. The agitators of the mixers are constituted by pumping turbines; the outlets of the mixers are constituted by weirs located near the side-wall of the vessel; means are provided for making the mixed liquids, discharged at the outlet of the mixers, flow by gravity towards a zone near the axis of the vessel; and the bottom of the vessel is inclined towards the axis of the vessel so as to define a reversed cone or pyramid.

Liquid-liquid extraction

Production of battery-grade manganese dioxide

Apparatus for liquid-liquid extraction

In a process for treating a metal bearing material containing arsenic and antimony by leaching in an acid solution with an oxygen-containing gas under pressure at a temperature of between 20.degree. and 200.degree. C, the improvement which consists in adding at least one element chosen from the group consisting of arsenic and phosphorus in such an amount to the leach mixture that the molar ratio (As + 4P) : Sb therein shall be at least equal to 8, thus dissolving at least the major part of the arsenic and antimony contained in the starting material.

Treatment of ores or metallurgical by-products containing arsenic and

A process for separating cobalt from nickel in an aqueous acid solution containing the above metals, which comprises contacting said solution with an organic phase comprising (a) 65-98% by volume of a concentrated alpha-hydroxyoxime extractant, a 1% by volume solution of which in xylene has per liter a maximum loading capacity of about 0.864 g. of copper, and (b) 2-35% by volume of an organophosphoric acid of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl, aryl or aralkyl radical, while maintaining the pH of said solution between 1 and 6, whereby cobalt is extracted from the aqueous phase to the organic phase and separating the resultant cobalt pregnant organic phase from the aqueous phase.

Process for liquid-liquid extraction of cobalt from nickel

A process for treating an aqueous acid solution containing at least one element selected from the group of elements consisting of As, Sb and Bi, said process comprising contacting the aqueous solution with an organic phase comprising an organophosphoric compound having the general formula (RO).sub.3 P = O wherein R represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group, while maintaining a temperature of between 10.degree. and 60.degree. C and an organic phase/aqueous phase ratio of between 0.1 and 5, whereby the elements of said group and acid are extracted from the aqueous phase to the organic phase, and separating the resultant pregnant organic phase from the aqueous phase.

Treatment of solutions containing impure metals

Metal values are extracted from manganiferous ocean floor nodule ore by treating the ore with hydrochloric acid, thereby producing chlorine and a starting pulp containing a solution of the metal chlorides and a solid residue. The starting pulp is subjected to at least two subsequent acidifications with HCl, each acidification being followed by addition of fresh ore, thereby producing chlorine and a final pulp containing a concentrated solution of metal chlorides and a solid residue. The solid residue is separated from the concentrated solution and substantially all the metal values, except manganese and alkali and alkaline earth metals, are separated from the solution. The manganese is separated from the solution by treatment with chlorine, at least the major portion of which was produced in the preceding leaching steps, while maintaining the solution at a pH of between about 3 and 7 by addition of a neutralizing agent such as MgO or Mg(OH).sub.2 whereby the manganese is precipitated in the form of MnO.sub.(1.sub.+x) in which x is between 0.5 and 0.7. The manganiferous precipitate is separated from the resulting solution of magnesium chloride and the latter is pyrohydrolysed in the atomized state to regenerate the neutralizing agent and HCl, which can be recycled.

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Antoine L Van Peteghem