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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph E Ritsko, Towanda, PA (US);
Howard L Acla, Towanda, PA (US);
Assignee:
GTE Products Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01G / ; C01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423 61 ; 423 53 ; 423 58 ;
Abstract
Tungsten and molybdenum are recovered from sulfur bearing material such as sulfide sludges by a pollution free process in which the sulfur bearing material is heated with agitation in an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate to form water soluble molybdenum and tungsten compounds without forming any appreciable amount of water soluble sulfur compounds. The reaction mixture is oxidized to convert partially reduced tungsten values or molybdenum values to sodium tungstate and sodium molybdate respectively. The liquid phase containing tungsten and molybdenum is separated from the solid phase containing free sulfur.