Affiliation:
1. School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
2. Beijing Key Laboratory for Science and Application of Functional Molecular and Crystalline Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Abstract
The hot spot extraction agent N,N,N′,N′-tetraoctyl-3-oxoglutaramide (TODGA) has the advantages of novelty, high efficiency and environmental protection in the separation of rare earths by tandem extraction. In this paper, the characteristic parameters for the separation of dysprosium, erbium, thulium and ytterbium ions in the TOGDA–kerosene/hydrochloric acid system for tandem extraction were calculated. Using a 10% TODGA–kerosene/5 mol·L−1 hydrochloric acid extraction system, the mixture containing Dy3+ 0.258 mol·L−1, Er3+ 0.252 mol·L−1, Tm3+ 0.248 mol·L−1 and Yb3+ 0.242 mol·L−1 can be separated by three separation steps, and four products of Dy3+, Er3+, Tm3+ and Yb3+ can be obtained. The purity of the four products was 99.80%, 99.20%, 99.70% and 99.70%, and the yields were 99.03%, 98.97%, 97.88% and 96.98%, in order. In this paper, the reasons were analyzed for the differences in the ability of the TODGA system to extract heavy rare earth ions (REEs) in terms of density functionality, complex structure and bond valence model. These will provide more basic data and guidance for the industrial application of TODGA.
Funder
National Key R&D Program of China
Cooperation Projects between Universities and Enterprises
Subject
Filtration and Separation,Analytical Chemistry
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