Hi,
as part of my better understanding for the reactivity series and usage in our context in the first stages of leaching, I sit here on a kind of intellectual exercise to get things straight. I leave the economical aspects aside here for it is clear that i wouldn't go through the below for a few hundred grams of Pb, etc.
Let's assume we have leached BMs and have now plenty of used HCl with unknown content up to - but without - Cu. Maybe several kilos of each base metal that is in solution, but the types of BMs in solution are unknown.
According to the reactivity series, I could start with the metal of highest reactivity and would add the next lower in list to precipitate. I.e. I have Al in there. Hence, i add Mn and Al would precipitate.
This would be a hell of two steps (precipitating, filtering) for each metal until I end up with adding Cu to precipitate Pb.
What if I hang in a piece of Cu and precipitate all higher ones in one go, but having a mix of metal chlorides precipitating? This is what is mentioned as a good way to go for dealing with our waste.
Can this mix be heated to the several melting points and the metals could be separated that way? Sounds somehow easier to me but I do not know if metal salts can be treated like that or if the metals would just return to their metal state to make ingots.
Just a hypothetical exercise. It is a way for me to better understand and digest what I see about the invovled chemistry here and shown on the net.
How would you go for separating all metals dissolved in your HCl batch?
Thanks.
as part of my better understanding for the reactivity series and usage in our context in the first stages of leaching, I sit here on a kind of intellectual exercise to get things straight. I leave the economical aspects aside here for it is clear that i wouldn't go through the below for a few hundred grams of Pb, etc.
Let's assume we have leached BMs and have now plenty of used HCl with unknown content up to - but without - Cu. Maybe several kilos of each base metal that is in solution, but the types of BMs in solution are unknown.
According to the reactivity series, I could start with the metal of highest reactivity and would add the next lower in list to precipitate. I.e. I have Al in there. Hence, i add Mn and Al would precipitate.
This would be a hell of two steps (precipitating, filtering) for each metal until I end up with adding Cu to precipitate Pb.
What if I hang in a piece of Cu and precipitate all higher ones in one go, but having a mix of metal chlorides precipitating? This is what is mentioned as a good way to go for dealing with our waste.
Can this mix be heated to the several melting points and the metals could be separated that way? Sounds somehow easier to me but I do not know if metal salts can be treated like that or if the metals would just return to their metal state to make ingots.
Just a hypothetical exercise. It is a way for me to better understand and digest what I see about the invovled chemistry here and shown on the net.
How would you go for separating all metals dissolved in your HCl batch?
Thanks.