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Investigating the Leaching Behavior of Copper from Chalcopyrite Concentrate in H2SO4/CuCl2 Media

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العنوان: Investigating the Leaching Behavior of Copper from Chalcopyrite Concentrate in H2SO4/CuCl2 Media
المؤلفون: R. Katal, A. Azizi, M. Gharabaghi
المصدر: Iranian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, Vol 17, Iss 2, Pp 66-76 (2020)
بيانات النشر: Iran University of Science & Technology, 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: LCC:Technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: copper leaching, chalcopyrite concentrate, hydrocopper® process, cupric chloride, d-optimal design (dod), Technology
الوصف: Present paper investigates the dissolution behavior of copper from chalcopyrite concentrate sample using cupric chloride solution in detail. Response surface modeling (RSM) in combination with d-optimal design (DOD) was utilized for modeling and optimizing the cupric chloride leaching process. At first, a quadratic polynomial model was developed for the relationship between the recovery of copper and influential factors. The predictions indicated an excellent agreement with the experimental data (with R2 of 0.9399). Then, the effects of main factors including pH (1-4), liquid/solid ratio (2-7 mL/g), temperature (70-90 °C), CuCl2 concentration (6-35 g/L), and leaching time (0.5-16) were determined. The findings demonstrated that the temperature and CuCl2 concentration were the most effective factors on the dissolution rate of copper from chalcopyrite sample, while liquid/solid ratio had the lowest impact. The recovery of copper increased linearly with an increment in the liquid/solid ratio and the decrease in the pulp pH. Additionally, the recovery enhanced by increasing the temperature and CuCl2 concentration owing the generation of Cu–Cl complexes species and reached a plateau point and then almost remained unchanged. Meanwhile, it was found out that the recovery of copper was independent of the interaction between factors. Moreover, the optimization of leaching process was carried out by Design Expert (version 7) software and desirability function method and the highest recovery of copper was found to be about 86.1% at a pH of ~1.4, temperature of 89 °C, liquid/solid ratio of 6.8 mL/g, CuCl2 concentration of 21.79 g/L and leaching time of ~8 h.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1735-0808
2383-3882
Relation: http://ijmse.iust.ac.ir/article-1-1568-en.html; https://doaj.org/toc/1735-0808; https://doaj.org/toc/2383-3882
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/63971811c2834f27ae6cc49fc2bb1735
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.63971811c2834f27ae6cc49fc2bb1735
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