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Leaching the Co-Precipitated Thorium from Light Rare Earth Double Sulphate and Preparation of High-Grade Thorium Concentrate

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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During selective precipitation of light rare earth elements from concentrated sulphuric acid monazite sulphate solutions, substantial amount of thorium was co-precipitated. This study deals with leaching most of this co-precipitated thorium under various conditions of pH, solution/solid ratio, agitation time, and leaching temperature. Also, preparation of high-grade thorium concentrate suitable for further purification steps was involved from the produced leach liquors. This conducted through some thorium selective precipitation methods such as precipitation at controlled pH and hydrolysis. The optimized conditions reveal that leach water of pH 1.0, the ratio to light rare earth double sulphate solid precipitate of 20.0 and agitation for 6.0 h at 80oC dissolve more than 79% of Th with only minimum of light rare earth elements as 2.8%. However, the initial prepared thorium concentrate containing about 45% Th, while the final concentrate containing more than 70% thorium which seems to be suitable to conduct further purification steps.

DOI

10.21608/ajnsa.2023.171898.1664

Keywords

Keywords: Light rare earth Double sulfate, Thorium precipitation, Leaching, High-grade Concentrate

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elbatrek

MiddleName

Y

Affiliation

chemical emgineering, Elshrouk Academy

Email

ahmedelbatrek86@gmail.com

City

10th of Ramadan

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28609151304818

Volume

56

Article Issue

4

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42139

Issue Date

2023-07-01

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2022-11-01

Publish Date

2023-07-01

Page Start

41

Page End

50

Print ISSN

1110-0451

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2090-4258

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294,744

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455

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Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

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https://ajnsa.journals.ekb.eg/

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Leaching the Co-Precipitated Thorium from Light Rare Earth Double Sulphate and Preparation of High-Grade Thorium Concentrate

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23 Dec 2024