Selective Extraction of Rare Earth Elements from Permanent Magnet Scraps with Membrane Solvent Extraction

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9452-9459

  Kim, Daejin ^a   Powell, Lawrence E ^a   Delmau, Lætitia H ^a   Peterson, Eric S ^b   Herchenroeder, Jim ^c   Bhave, Ramesh R ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Molycorp Magnequench   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSPROSIUM COMPOUNDS; EXTRACTION; IRON SCRAP; MAGNETS; MEMBRANES; PERMANENT MAGNETS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; RECOVERY; SOLVENTS; STRIPPING (REMOVAL);

AQUEOUS NITRIC ACID; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; HYDROCHLORIC ACID SOLUTION; INDUSTRIAL SCRAP; MEMBRANE-ASSISTED SOLVENT EXTRACTION; MODULE CONFIGURATIONS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REES); SELECTIVE EXTRACTION;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

DYSPROSIUM; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; NEODYMIUM; NITRIC ACID; PRASEODYMIUM; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; LANTHANIDE; SOLVENT;

ANNEALING; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTRACTION METHOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MEMBRANE; NITRIC ACID; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SOLVENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; MAGNET; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRECIPITATION; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HOLLOW SYNTHETIC FIBERS; MAGNETS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS;

DYSPROSIUM; MAGNETS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS, RARE EARTH; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEODYMIUM; SOLVENTS;

EID: 84939631520     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01306     Document Type: Article

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