Electrochemistry Copper Sulfate Electrolysis From Stock Pot Waste

[nickton]

I like the DC power supply you have and was just wondering if this replaces and is usable as a manual battery charger is in reverse electroplating. I apologize for being such a beginner here.

 

[nickvc]

I’d go for 4 - 1 and try how that works.

 

[ARMCO]

I like the DC power supply you have and was just wondering if this replaces and is usable as a manual battery charger is in reverse electroplating. I apologize for being such a beginner here.

Sorry, I ran off to the mountains for a month or two to do some gold mining.

So I haven’t been on the form for a while. I don’t know if I could use this for a battery charger or not I haven’t really given that much thought. But it’s a nice little DC power supply for what I’m doing. I’ll probably set up and do another copper refining in the future but for right now I just did a large melt/smelt of copper and some other solids that probably include small amount of gold and have a large copper bar.

I think what I’m going to do with it is cut it into pieces that will work well when needing some good copper to cement out gold etc. from future stock pot accumulations.

I imagine any small amounts of gold that are bound up in the copper will end up in the bottom of the stock pot that way as well. But I had a large amount of copper that I had recovered from my previous stock pot waste treatment as well as the electrolytic copper that I came up with that I just melted all together into a large bar that I think I’m gonna use as described above.

All in all it was a fun academic exercise and seem to work out fairly well for a first attempt.


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[nickvc]

The one good thing about collecting any copper in your solutions by cementing is that any values you missed will be with the copper and processing via a cell produces a more concentrated product to recover and refine.
Using your other copper for cementation is a good idea as any values will be released as the copper goes into solution, I used a similar system with first what I called a settlement tank with copper in it and then a bucket with lots of copper which came from the third bucket which had steel in it.

 

[ARMCO]

The one good thing about collecting any copper in your solutions by cementing is that any values you missed will be with the copper and processing via a cell produces a more concentrated product to recover and refine.
Using your other copper for cementation is a good idea as any values will be released as the copper goes into solution, I used a similar system with first what I called a settlement tank with copper in it and then a bucket with lots of copper which came from the third bucket which had steel in it.

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