Thermochemical Route for Extraction and Recycling of Critical, Strategic and High Value Elements from By-Products and End-of-Life Materials, Part I: Treatment of a Copper By-Product in Air Atmosphere

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Development of our modern society requests a number of critical and strategic elements (platinum group metals, In, Ga, Ge…) and high value added elements (Au, Ag, Se, Te, Ni…) which are often concentrated in by-products during the extraction of base metals (Cu, Pb, Zn…). Further, recycling of end-of-life materials employed in high technology, renewable energy and transport by conventional extractive processes also leads to the concentration of such chemical elements and their compounds in metallurgical by-products and/or co-products. One of these materials, copper anode slime (CAS), derived from a copper electrolytic refining factory, was used for this study. The sample was subjected to isothermal treatment from 225 to 770 °C under air atmosphere and the reaction products were systematically analyzed by scanning electron microscopy through energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) to investigate the thermal behavior of the treated sample. The main components of the anode slime (CuAgSe, Cu2-xSeyS1-y, Ag3AuSe2) react with oxygen, producing mostly copper and selenium oxides as well as Ag-Au alloys as final products at temperatures higher than 500 °C. Selenium dioxide (SeO2) is volatilized and recovered in pure state by cooling the gaseous phase, whilst copper(II) oxide, silver, gold and tellurium remain in the treatment residue.
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Authors Ndue Kanari;Eric Allain;Seit Shallari;Frederic Diot;Sebastien Diliberto;Fabrice Patisson;Jacques Yvon;Kanari, Ndue;Allain, Eric;Shallari, Seit;Diot, Frederic;Diliberto, Sebastien;Patisson, Fabrice;Yvon, Jacques;
Journal Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
Year 2019
DOI
10.3390/ma12101625
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https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12101625
Keywords
by-products thermal treatment critical and strategic materials valuable metals copper anode slime selenium dioxide National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine ndue kanari jacques yvon pmid:31108914 pmc6567012 doi:10.3390/ma12101625 eric allain

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