Batch and continuous precipitation of scorodite from dilute industrial solutions

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 44-52

  Caetano, Michelle L ^a   Ciminelli, Virginia S T ^a   Rocha, Sonia D F ^a   Spitale, Matheus C ^a   Caldeira, Claudia L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arsenic removal; Continuous reactor operation; Precipitation; Scorodite

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BATCH REACTORS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEACHING; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; OXIDATION; POWDERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REACTOR OPERATION; RECYCLING; SOLUTIONS; STEEL METALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ARSENIC PRECIPITATES; ARSENIC REMOVAL; ARSENIC REMOVALS; CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS; CONTINUOUS PRECIPITATIONS; CONTINUOUS REACTOR OPERATION; CONTINUOUS REACTORS; FAST OXIDATIONS; HIGH YIELDS; INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS; LEACHABILITY; LEACHING PROCEDURES; MIXED SUSPENSION MIXED PRODUCT REMOVALS; PRECIPITATION; RAMAN ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIMES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SCORODITE; TOTAL SURFACE AREAS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

NONMETALS;

EID: 56949106223     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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