Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for recovering rare earth metals from waste sulphate materials, such as waste gypsum, which is a known secondary resource of rare earth metals and widely present e.g. in areas, where industrial phosphate production takes place. The present invention combines sulphate reduction treatment, such as bioreduction with sulphate reducing bacteria, and magnetic separation, which is based on an exceptionally high magnetic susceptibility of rare earth compounds compared to e.g. calcium compounds in such reductively pretreated gypsum precipitate.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for recovering rare earth metals from waste sulphate materials, such as waste gypsum, which is a known secondary resource of rare earth metals and widely present e.g. in areas, where industrial phosphate production takes place. The present invention combines sulphate reduction treatment, such as bioreduction with sulphate reducing bacteria, and magnetic separation, which is based on an exceptionally high magnetic susceptibility of rare earth compounds compared to e.g. calcium compounds in such reductively pretreated gypsum precipitate.
Abstract:
A method for determining siloxane content of a gas by non-dispersive infrared analysis including the steps of providing infrared light at a limited wave number band selected according to the absorption bands of the siloxanes, transmitting the infrared light at the limited wave number band to a volume of a gas to be analyzed, and detecting the intensity of the infrared light at the limited wave number band passed through the volume of a gas to be analyzed. The siloxane content is determined based on the absorption of the infrared light at the limited wave number band. Preferably, the limited wave number band lies in the range of 800 to 860 cm−1.