Investigation of the sorption method of processing molybdenum-containing raw materials to extract rare metals

Abstract

The article investigates the sorption method of concentrating rare metals on various sorbents (brands “Purolight”: A-100, A-170, A-172 and BO-020) and determines the optimal conditions for their extraction. It is shown that the extraction of molybdenum on the sorbent “Purolight A-100” was 98%. The proposed sorption mechanism consists in the formation of molybdenum complexes with functional phosphor basics and sulfate groups of sorbents. Sorption of rhenium on the Purolite A-170 sorbent was 93%. Sorption of rhenium on the sorbent BO-020 is described by the Langmuir equation with a maximum static exchange capacity of 94%. Based on the sorption and desorption kinetics of molybdenum and rhenium on various ion-exchange sorbents, it was shown that the sorption of molybdenum and rhenium proceeds most efficiently on low-basic anion exchangers A-100 Mo and A-170, respectively, and after double recleaning of the “rough” rhenium concentrate, ammonium rhenium of qualification was obtained AR-0.