Process for recovering zinc and/or zinc oxide II
AssigneeMetallic Waste Solutions Pty Ltd
InventorsRaymond Walter Shaw, Neal Barr
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Abstract
A process for recovering zinc from a zinc containing material, the process including the steps of: leaching the zinc containing material with an alkaline lixiviant comprising an aqueous mixture of NH3 and NH4Cl, or ionic equivalent, having a NH4Cl concentration of between about 10 g/L and about 150 g/L H2O and a NH3 concentration of between 20 g/l H2O and 250 g/L H2O, to produce a zinc containing leachate; stripping ammonia from the leachate to produce a stripped liquor which includes a zinc containing precipitate, the stripped liquor having a NH3 concentration of between 7 and 30 g/L H2O; and recovering the zinc from the stripped liquor.
Claims19
A process for recovering zinc from a zinc containing material, the process including the steps of:
- leaching the zinc containing material with an alkaline lixiviant comprising an aqueous mixture of NH3 and NH4Cl, or ionic equivalent, having a NH4Cl concentration of between about 10 g/L and about 150 g/L H2O and a NH3 concentration of between 20 g/l H2O and 250 g/L H2O, to produce a zinc containing leachate precipitate in the form of at least one of zinc hydroxide (Zn(OH)2), zinc hydroxy chloride (Zn5(OH)8Cl2.H2O), zinc oxide (ZnO) or combination thereof;
- stripping ammonia from the leachate to produce a stripped liquor which includes a zinc containing precipitate, the stripped liquor having a NH3 concentration of between 7 and 30 g/L H2O;
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- recovering the zinc from the stripped liquor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.