Germanium Cementation from Chloride solution with zinc powder

Publish Year: 1398
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 13 آبان 1398

Abstract:

Germanium is a strategic metal which is finding an increasingly important role in industry such as infrared and fiber optics, catalysts, and semiconductor, energy, chemical catalysis and medicine. The reserves of germanium are discrete and its global distribution is very sparse. As a result, germanium recovered worldwide is a by-product of other metals, mostly zinc, copper, and lead, coal. Hydrometallurgy is the most important candidate for the recovery of germanium. In this study the cementation of germanium from cholorid solutions was investigated. The results show that reaction time, temperature, agitation speed, pH value of solution and the quantity of zinc powder have significant effects on recovering germanium, and the optimum process operating parameters are established as follows: time 30 min, pH value 2.5, the quantity of zinc powder 3 times of the stoichiometry of germanium, agitation speed 600 r/min and temperature 55 °C. Under these experimental conditions, the recovery ratios of germanium can reach 95.76% .

Authors

Sara Jalili

Master of Mineral Processing, Department of Mining Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Mohsen Bozorgmehr

Department of Materials Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology,۸۳۱۴۵/۱۱۵ , Shahin Shahr, Iran.

Majid Askari

Science and research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran.Iran

Davood Moradkhani

Associate Professor of Metallurgy, University of Zanjan. Iran