Supercritical CO2 fluid cooperative biological in-situ leaching uranium mining method

An in-situ leaching and supercritical technology, applied in the field of uranium mining by in-situ leaching, can solve the problems of low leaching efficiency, high acid consumption, and low uranium concentration in the leach solution, shorten the leaching time, increase the leaching rate, and have good application prospects Effect

Inactive Publication Date: 2020-05-05
NANHUA UNIV
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[0004] For this type of sandstone uranium deposit, if the traditional acid method (generally using sulfuric acid as the leaching agent) is used for mining, on the one hand, due to the high content of carbonate, the acid consumption is relatively high, which is not suitable for the economical development of uranium deposits. At the same time, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas and calcium sulfate precipitation will be produced during acid leaching, which will cause serious blockage of the ore-bearing layer, resulting in the failure of normal mining of the entire uranium deposit
[0005] while using CO 2 +O 2 When the leaching process is mined, although the CO 2 The addition of can partially improve the formation permeability, but it is still difficult to greatly increase the production of process holes
On the one hand, this makes the leaching efficiency low. On the other hand, due to the low production volume and insufficient oxygen injection, the concentration of uranium in the leach solution is low.

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Embodiment 1

[0032] A supercritical CO 2 The method for extracting uranium by fluid synergistic bio-in-situ leaching comprises the following steps:

[0033] S1. Groundwater circulation: first pump out the groundwater in the ore-bearing layer from the pumping hole, and then inject it into the ore-bearing layer through the liquid injection hole, and dredge the ore layer through the groundwater circulation. The cycle lasts for 20 to 30 days;

[0034] S2, pre-acidification: after the groundwater cycle ends, add 6mmol / L citric acid and a surfactant to the groundwater for pre-acidification; the surfactant consists of 2,2-difluoro-2-(fluorosulfonyl)acetic acid Salt and polyoxyethylene octylphenol ether-10 are compounded according to the mass ratio of 1:2, and the injection concentration of the surfactant is 0.1g / L;

[0035] S3. Add the domesticated Thiobacillus ferrooxidans bacteria liquid into the pre-acidified groundwater as an oxidant, and then pass through supercritical CO 2 Fluid, when the...

Embodiment 2-5

[0040] Embodiment 2-5 provides a kind of supercritical CO 2 Fluid synergistic bio-in-situ leaching uranium mining method, compared with Example 1, the difference is that the supercritical CO 2 The pressure of the fluid, except for the above differences, other operations are the same, and will not be repeated here; the specific condition parameters and uranium leaching rate results are shown in the table below.

[0041] Example Pressure (Mpa) Leaching rate (%) 1 12 91.4 2 6 79.6 3 8 85.7 4 15 91.9 5 20 92.1

[0042] From the results in the above table, it can be seen that when the supercritical CO 2 When the fluid pressure is between 8-12Mpa, with the increase of the injection pressure, the leaching rate of uranium also tends to increase accordingly, and reaches the highest value of 91.4% at 12Mpa. However, when the pressure exceeds 12MPa, the leaching rate of uranium does not increase significantly as the pressure continues to i...

Embodiment 6-9

[0044] Embodiment 6-9 provides a kind of supercritical CO 2 Fluid synergistic bio-in-situ leaching uranium mining method, compared with Example 1, the difference is that the supercritical CO 2 For the leaching time of the fluid, except for the above differences, other operations are the same and will not be repeated here; the specific condition parameters and uranium leaching rate results are shown in the table below.

[0045] Example time (min) Leaching rate (%) 6 70 81.2 7 80 86.1 8 100 92.7 9 110 91.9

[0046] Comparing the results of Example 1 and Examples 6 to 9, it can be seen that although the leaching rate increases between 80 and 100 min, the range is very small, and the leaching rate tends to the maximum when the leaching time is 90 min. The leaching rate of uranium in the ore did not increase significantly but decreased slightly after 100 minutes. This is because if the leaching time is too short (100min), the uranium leach...

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Abstract

The invention discloses a Supercritical CO2 fluid cooperative biological in-situ leaching uranium mining method. First, a uranium ore is pre-acid-leached by injecting organic weak acid citric acid into an ore layer, metal uranium is dissolved from mineral by using a method that a functional group of the citric acid forms a compound and chelate with metal uranium ions, then acclimated thiobacillusferrooxidans is injected into an acidified ore body as an oxidizing agent, Fe2+ in ore is oxidized to Fe3+, then Fe3+ is used to oxidize U4+ insoluble to acid soluble U6+, and finally a highly solubleuranyl carbonate complex is formed with an injected supercritical CO2 fluid. Therefore the concentration of the metal uranium in a leaching solution and the leaching efficiency of the metal uranium are improved, the leaching time is shortened, no side effect exerts on the environment, meanwhile, the use of citric acid can further reduce the precipitation of calcium, magnesium, iron and the like in the leaching solution, and the contact area between a leaching agent and the uranium ore in the subsequent leaching process is increased, so that continuous carrying out of a leaching reaction is facilitated.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of uranium mining by in-situ leaching, in particular to a supercritical CO 2 Fluid synergistic bio-in-situ leaching method for uranium recovery. Background technique [0002] In-situ leaching uranium mining is to inject a leaching agent prepared in a certain proportion into the ore layer through a liquid injection well drilled from the surface to the ore-bearing layer, and the injected leaching agent and oxidant will chemically react with the useful components in the ore to form soluble The compound leaves the chemical reaction zone under the action of diffusion and convection and enters the leachate flow that permeates and migrates along the ore seam to form leachate. [0003] In recent years, a number of in-situ leaching sandstone uranium deposits with large reserves have been proven in many parts of Inner Mongolia. Although the resources of one type of uranium deposits are large, they are characterized b...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): C22B60/02C22B3/18C22B3/42
CPCC22B3/18C22B3/42C22B60/0226C22B60/0256C22B60/0265
Inventor 戴兵张雷陈英贺桂成
Owner NANHUA UNIV
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