Mining, Minerals Processing and Metallurgical Engineering

Spontaneous separation of Pb from PbSO4-coprecipitated jarosite using freeze-thaw cycling with thiourea

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  • Jun PENG1*, Yang-jin WEI1*, Mei-qing SHI1,2, Jia-hui WU1, Qing-wei WANG1,2, Zhang LIN1,2, Hui LIU1,2, Xu YAN 1,2
1. School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control & Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution, Changsha 410083, China

Online published: 2022-03-25

Abstract

To separate Pb from PbSO4-coprecipitated jarosite, a novel thiourea-induced freeze-thaw cycling (T-FTC) process was investigated. Results show that distributed PbSO4 particles are pressed and aggregated around the jarosite particles by T-FTC. Under the freezing-concentration effect of T-FTC, the reaction between PbSO4 and thiourea is also promoted, forming lead thiourea sulfate (Pb-tu). As the cycles of T-FTC increase, PbSO4 around jarosite disappears for the reaction of forming Pb-tu. After 12 cycles of T-FTC, a spontaneous separation is observed between Pb-tu and jarosite, i.e., Pb-tu is separated into the upper layer while jarosite-rich phases remain in the lower layer. Due to this spontaneous separation, leaching toxicity of the jarosite coprecipitates is reduced by 73.7%. These results suggest that T-FTC process can achieve the separation of Pb from PbSO4-coprecipitated jarosite and is a promising approach for removing and recovering metals from iron-rich jarosite residues.

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JunPENG*,Yang-jinWEI*,Mei-qingSHI,Jia-huiWU,Qing-weiWANG,ZhangLIN,HuiLIU,XuYAN, . Spontaneous separation of Pb from PbSO4-coprecipitated jarosite using freeze-thaw cycling with thiourea[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2022 , 32(3) : 1019 -1030 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(22)65851-5

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