Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enrichment process for a PGM-metals containing stream
- Patent Title (中): 含PGM金属的流的富集过程
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Application No.: US12669558Application Date: 2008-07-28
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Publication No.: US08168069B2Publication Date: 2012-05-01
- Inventor: Henry Kasaini
- Applicant: Henry Kasaini
- Applicant Address: ZA Pretoria West
- Assignee: Tshwane University of Technology
- Current Assignee: Tshwane University of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: ZA Pretoria West
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- Priority: ZA2007/6234 20070727
- International Application: PCT/ZA2008/000067 WO 20080728
- International Announcement: WO2009/018592 WO 20090205
- Main IPC: B01J49/00
- IPC: B01J49/00

Abstract:
The invention provides an enrichment process for a PGM-group metals containing stream, said process including the steps of contacting activated carbon particles with a PGM-rich stream by contacting the stream with a batch of the particles on a continuous basis, whereby at least some of the PGM-group metals are adsorbed from the stream onto active surface sites of the activated carbon and a PGM-metals depleted stream passes out of contact with the activated carbon batch, thereafter stripping the PGM-group metals from the activated carbon batch by means of a concentrated HCl solution as stripping agent, wherein the stripping agent is contacted with the activated carbon batch on a continuous flow basis and the PGM-group metals loaded stripping agent is removed from contact with the activated carbon from which the PGM-group metals have been stripped, and then regenerating the activated carbon batch by washing with water and, if necessary, reactivating the carbon particles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100213133A1 ENRICHMENT PROCESS FOR A PGM-METALS CONTAINING STREAM Public/Granted day:2010-08-26
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