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Method for comprehensively recycling rare earth and fluorine in process of treating bastnaesite

A bastnasite and treatment process technology, applied in the field of rare earth hydrometallurgy, can solve the problems of increased environmental protection treatment costs, low-value utilization of high-value elements, and difficulty in meeting environmental protection requirements, saving chemical raw materials, and reducing production costs. Effects of Rare Earth Loss

Active Publication Date: 2015-04-22
GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO LTD
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However, in the process of using this method to treat bastnaesite, there are still a large number of high-value non-cerium rare earths entering the cerium-rich slag, resulting in low-value utilization of high-priced elements. Therefore, steps such as alkali decomposition, washing and hydrochloric acid leaching need to be connected. Bastnaesite The comprehensive utilization of fluorine as an associated resource in the treatment process has not been well resolved; fluorine enters the cerium-rich slag during the hydrochloric acid leaching process, and most of it enters the wastewater with alkali conversion, and its environmental protection treatment is extremely difficult.
For the new emission standards for rare earth industrial production, the widely used hydrochloric acid leaching-alkali conversion-re-optimizing leaching process is difficult to meet the new environmental protection requirements, which requires enterprises to invest more in environmental protection facilities and greatly increase environmental protection treatment costs

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Embodiment 1

[0034] 65% REO bastnaesite was oxidized and roasted at 600°C for 0.5h. During the roasting process, 5wt% sodium sulfate was added to the bastnaesite as a roasting aid, and hydrochloric acid was used for leaching at 20°C for 10h. During the leaching process, 0.1 wt% cerium sulfate in the amount of bastnaesite is added as a catalytic leaching aid to obtain a cerium-poor rare earth chloride solution and fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag. The leaching rate of rare earth reached 72.3%, among which the leaching rate of non-cerium rare earth in bastnaesite reached 98.5%. CeO in fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag 2 / TREO reached 98.4%. The fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag undergoes hydrocyclone separation to obtain rare earth fluorides with a purity of 96.7%, of which CeO 2 / TREO is greater than 98%. The total yield of rare earths entering rare earth fluorides and rare earth chlorides reaches 98.1%. The sodium introduced by the roasting aid can be separated from the rare ...

Embodiment 2

[0036] Oxidize and roast 65% REO bastnaesite at 350°C for 5 hours, add 0.1wt% aluminum sulfate in the amount of bastnaesite during the roasting process as a roasting aid, leaching with hydrochloric acid at 80°C for 0.5h, and leaching in hydrochloric acid During the process, lanthanum sulfate with an amount of 5 wt% of bastnaesite is added as a catalytic leaching aid to obtain a cerium-poor rare earth chloride solution and fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag. The leaching rate of rare earth reached 70.8%, among which the leaching rate of non-cerium rare earth in bastnaesite reached 98.4%. CeO in fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag 2 / TREO reached over 97.1%. The fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag undergoes a flotation process to obtain rare earth fluorides with a purity of 96.3%, of which CeO 2 / TREO is greater than 98%. The total yield of rare earths entering rare earth fluorides and rare earth chlorides reaches 98.8%. The aluminum introduced by the roasting aid can be...

Embodiment 3

[0038] The bastnaesite was oxidized and roasted at 450°C for 2.5h. During the roasting process, 1% by weight of bastnaesite was added as a roasting aid. It was leached with hydrochloric acid at 50°C for 5h. During the leaching process with hydrochloric acid 2wt% aluminum nitrate in the amount of bastnaesite is added as a catalytic leaching aid to obtain a cerium-poor rare earth chloride solution and fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag. The rare earth leaching rate reached 73.1%, and the non-cerium rare earth leaching rate in bastnaesite reached 99.1%. CeO in fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag 2 / TREO reached 98.7%. Fluorine-containing cerium-rich slag undergoes a magnetic separation process to obtain rare earth fluorides with a purity of 95.3%, of which CeO 2 / TREO is greater than 98%. The total yield of rare earths entering the rare earth fluorides and rare earth chlorides reaches over 99.2%. Non-rare earth elements such as sodium and aluminum introduced by roasting ai...

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Abstract

Provided is a method for comprehensively recovering rare earth and fluorine in the bastnaesite treatment process, the method comprising: oxidizing and roasting the bastnaesite, using hydrochloric acid to leach the roasted mixture, adding a roasting additive to the bastnaesite in the roasting process and / or adding a catalytic leaching additive to the mixture in the hydrochloric acid leaching process, so as to obtain a rare earth chloride solution with little cerium and a fluorine-containing cerium-rich residue, and then separating and recovering rare earth fluoride from the fluorine-containing cerium-rich residue. The method of the present invention greatly reduces the consumption of chemical raw materials, the pollution to the environment during use, and the production cost. The method of the present invention reduces the processing steps such as multiple solid-liquid separations and the like, thus simplifying the process, lowering operation intensity, reducing rare earth loss, and improving rare earth recovery rate, especially the hydrochloric acid leaching recovery rate of high-valence non-cerium rare earth. Moreover, the method of the present invention discharges no fluorine during the whole process, and has the characteristics of low consumption and high efficiency.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for comprehensively recovering rare earth and fluorine in the process of bastnaesite treatment, and belongs to the technical field of rare earth hydrometallurgy. Background technique [0002] Bastnaesite is the rare earth mineral resource with the largest reserves and the largest amount of mining and use in the world. At present, about 70% of the rare earth raw materials are produced from bastnaesite, which is rich in a large amount of fluorine resources. my country is a big rare earth country with very rich bastnaesite mineral resources, such as Inner Mongolia Baiyun Obo Rare Earth Mine, Sichuan Mianning Rare Earth Mine, Shandong Weishan Rare Earth Mine, etc., all of which are large rare earth deposits dominated by bastnaesite. my country's rare earth production provides 95% of the world's rare earth market demand. Sichuan bastnaesite is the second largest rare earth resource in my country. Its smelting and separatio...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): C22B1/02C22B3/10C22B59/00
CPCC22B3/10C22B59/00C22B1/02Y02P10/20
Inventor 王良士龙志奇崔大立黄小卫于瀛徐旸冯兴亮
Owner GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO LTD