Recovery of gold and silver from spent mobile phones by means of acidothiourea leaching followed by adsorption using biosorbent prepared from persimmon tannin

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 133, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-93

  Gurung, Manju ^a   Adhikari, Birendra Babu ^b   Kawakita, Hidetaka ^a   Ohto, Keisuke ^a   Inoue, Katsutoshi ^a   Alam, Shafiq ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acidothiourea leaching; Adsorption; Persimmon extract; Precious metals; Spent mobile phones

Indexed keywords

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; BATCH-WISE; BIOSORBENTS; CATIONIC SPECIES; CONTACT TIME; COPPER CEMENTATION; CROSSLINKED; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; FERRIC IONS; GOLD AND SILVER; GOLD DISSOLUTION RATES; KINETIC STUDY; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM LEACHING CONDITIONS; PERSIMMON EXTRACT; PERSIMMON TANNIN; PULP DENSITY; SELECTIVE ADSORPTION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCBS);

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; FLAVONOIDS; LEACHING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRECIOUS METALS; RECOVERY; SULFURIC ACID; THIOUREAS; EXTRACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SILVER; TANNINS; TELEPHONE SETS;

GOLD;

EID: 84872309190     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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