Treatment of fluid catalytic cracking spent catalysts to recover lanthanum and cerium: Comparison between selective precipitation and solvent extraction

Valentina Innocenzi; Francesco Ferella; Ida De Michelis; Francesco Veglio

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.24, 92-97, April, 2015

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2014.09.014 Export Citation

Treatment of fluid catalytic cracking spent catalysts to recover lanthanum and cerium: Comparison between selective precipitation and solvent extraction

Valentina Innocenzi^†, Francesco Ferella, Ida De Michelis, and Francesco Veglio

Department of Industrial Engineering, Information and Economy University of L’Aquila, Via Giovanni Gronchi 18 – Zona industriale di Pile, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy

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The paper is focused on the study of hydrometallurgical processes for recovery of rare earths (RE) from fluid catalytic cracking catalysts (FCCC). According to the experimental results two processes were proposed: in the first one RE were recovered as double sulfates by selective precipitation with sodium hydroxide after leaching with sulfuric acid. The second approach consisted of dissolution of powder by acids, solvent extraction by (2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric acid (D2EHPA), stripping and precipitation of RE oxalates using oxalic acid. Experiments showed that solvent extraction was found to be beneficial in terms of achieving improved final products quality with greater purity (∼98%).

Keywords:Hydrometallurgical process;FCC spent catalyst;Lanthanum;Cerium;Precipitation;Solvent extraction

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[Referenced By]

[1] Yoo JS, Catal. Today, 44(1-4), 27 (1998)

[2] Binnemans K, Jones PT, Blanpain B, Van Gerven T, Yang Y, Walton A, Buchert M, J. Clean Prod., 51, 1 (2013)

[3] Innocenzi V, De Michelis I, Kopacek B, Veglio F, Waste Manage., 34, 1237 (2014)

[4] Pietrelli L, Bellomo B, Fontana D, Montereali MR, Hydrometallurgy, 66, 135 (2002)

[5] Li L, Xu S, Ju Z, Wu F, Hydrometallurgy, 100, 41 (2009)

[6] Zhang P, Yokoyama T, Itabashi O, Wakui Y, Suzuki TM, Inoue K, Hydrometallurgy, 50, 61 (1998)

[7] Zhang PW, Yokoyama T, Itabashi O, Wakui Y, Suzuki TM, Inoue K, J. Power Sources, 77(2), 116 (1999)

[8] Rodrigues LEOC, Mansur MB, J. Power Sources, 195(11), 3735 (2010)

[9] Bertuol DA, Bernardes AM, Tenorio JAS, J. Power Sources, 193(2), 914 (2009)

[10] Innocenzi V, Veglio F, J. Power Sources, 211, 184 (2012)

[11] Jiang Y, Shibayama A, Liu K, Fujita T, Hydrometallurgy, 76, 1 (2005)

[12] Jong YK, Kim US, Byeon MS, Kang WK, Hwang KT, Cho WS, J. Rare Earths, 29, 1075 (2011)

[13] Chen HL, Tseng YS, Hsu KC, Cem. Concr. Compos., 26, 657 (2004)

[14] de Lomas MG, de Rojas MIS, Frıas M, J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., 90, 443 (2007)

[15] Al-Jabri K, Baawain M, Taha R, Saif Al-Kamyani Z, Al-Shamsi K, Ishtieh A, Constr. Build. Mater., 39, 77 (2013)

[16] Gao X, Owens WT, Process for Metal Recovery from Catalyst Waste. Number of patent 20120156116 (2012).

[17] Han-Wei E, Jia M, J. Cent. South Univ., 42, 2651 (2011)

[18] Gupta CK, Krishnamurthy N, Int. Mater. Rev., 37, 197 (1992)

[19] Abreu RD, Morais CA, Miner. Eng., 23(6), 536 (2010)

[20] Innocenzi V, Ferella F, De Michelis I, Veglio F, Processo per il recupero di terre rare. Italian Patent Application RM2012A000374 (2012).