Towards environmentally safe recovery of platinum from scrap automotive catalytic converters

Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-90

  Kizilaslan, Eray ^a   Aktaş, Serdar ^a   Şeşen, M Kelami ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aqua regia; Catalytic converter; HCl: H2O2; Platinum; Recovery; Solution

Indexed keywords

AGITATION RATES; AQUA REGIA; AUTOMOTIVE CATALYTIC CONVERTERS; CHEMICAL METHOD; ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HCL: H2O2; MASS RATIO; PLATINUM DISSOLUTION; PLATINUM RECOVERY; REACTION TEMPERATURE;

DISSOLUTION; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; PLATINUM;

CATALYTIC CONVERTERS;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL METHOD; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; PLATINUM; RECOVERY;

EID: 71649116291     PISSN: 13000160     EISSN: 13036157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/muh-0901-10     Document Type: Article

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