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JOURNAL OF RARE EARTHS
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 304-310Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jre.2017.09.007
Keywords
Heavy rare earths; alpha-aminophosphonic acid; Solvent extraction; Separation
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2012CBA01206]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21521092, 51222404]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS [XDA02030100]
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The extraction and separation of heavy rare earths (REs) using newly synthesized alpha-aminophosphonic acid extractant 2-ethylhexyl-3-(2-ethylhexylamino) pentan-3-yl phosphonic acid (HEHAPP, HA) in nheptane were investigated from chloride medium. The extraction stoichiometries of lanthanum, gadolinium, yttrium and lutetium are determined to be REA(3) by the slope analysis method. The favorable separation factors of adjacent heavy REs(II), i.e. beta(Upsilon/Ho), beta(Er/Upsilon), beta(Tm/Er), beta(Upsilon b/Tm) and beta(Lu/Yb), are determined to be 1.87, 1.36, 3.21, 3.22 and 1.93, respectively, when extracted from a binary system at proper condition. The loading capacities of HA for Ho, Er, Yb and Lu increase in the order Ho < Er < Yb < Lu with the values being 0.201, 0.205, 0.216 and 0.229 mol/L, respectively. So HA would be a potential extractant for the separation of heavy REs(III). Among inorganic acids such as H2SO4, HNO3 and HCl, HCl is tested to be the most effective stripping agent. (C) 2018 Chinese Society of Rare Earths. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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