Hydrometallurgical Process Fundamentals

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Sulfide Mineralogy: A Review with Special Reference to Phases of Interest in Hydrometallurgy....Pages 1-22
Electronic Structures of Sulfides and Leaching Behavior....Pages 23-40
Heterogeneous Rate Processes in the Leaching of Base Metal Sulfides....Pages 41-76
The Leaching of Some Arsenide and Antimonide Minerals in Ferric Chloride Media....Pages 77-112
Composition and Phase Changes during Oxidative Acid Leaching Reactions....Pages 113-123
The Behavior of Impurities during Jarosite Precipitation....Pages 125-169
Coupled Rate Control in the Dissolution of Electron Conducting Minerals....Pages 171-194
A Partial Equilibrium Model Based on the Kinetics of Dissolution and Equilibrium in Solution of the UO 2 -FeS 2 -Fe 2 (SO 4 ) 3 -H 2 SO 4 -System....Pages 195-226
Interfacial Phenomena in Leaching Systems....Pages 227-268
The Integrated Organic Leaching - Solvent Extraction Operation in Hydrometallurgy....Pages 269-292
Thermodynamics of Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions Applied to Liquid-Liquid Extraction of Metals and Solid-Liquid Equilibria....Pages 293-313
Rate Processes in Solvent Extraction Systems....Pages 315-325
Kinetics of Extraction of Iron (III) from Chloride Solutions by Trioctylamine....Pages 327-356
Interfacial Phenomena in Hydrometallurgical Liquid-Liquid Extraction Systems....Pages 357-405
Kinetics of Mass Transfer with Chemical Reaction in Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Systems....Pages 407-428
The Chemical Reactions of Tributyl Phosphate in the Solvent Extraction of Metals....Pages 429-471
Solvent Extraction of Metals - Metal Transfer Rates and Contactor Design....Pages 473-498
Equipment Selection and Design for Metals Solvent Extraction....Pages 499-514
Composition Control of Extractors....Pages 515-528
Use of Statistical Methods of Experimental Design in Optimizing Hydrometallurgical Processes....Pages 529-538
Applications of Ion Exchange in Hydrometallurgy....Pages 539-553
Modeling of Liquid-Membrane Extraction Processes....Pages 555-597
Characterizing Effects of Novel Hydrometallurgical Process Chemistry on Electrowinning Operations....Pages 599-616
Metal Recovery from Dilute Aqueous Solutions by Various Electrochemical Reactors....Pages 617-646
The Precipitation of Hematite from Iron-Loaded Versatic Acid Solutions by Hydrolytic Stripping....Pages 647-661
Back Matter....Pages 663-665