CN1054214C - Method for recovering silver from solid-phase photosensitive material - Google Patents
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Abstract
A process for recovering silver from solid-phase photosensitive material includes such steps as dissolving the silver emulsion layer in protease, settling, separating silver mud, calcining silver mud, immersing the dregs in water, and smelting. The purity of the silver is 99.9-99.99%, and the direct yield is 97-99.7%.
Description
A method for recovering silver from a solid-phase photosensitive material. The present invention relates to precious metal metallurgy.
Silver is a noble metal, and is widely used for manufacturing photographic photosensitive materials due to the strong photosensitivity of its compound, silver bromide, and about 40% of the world's silver yield is used for photosensitive materials. A large amount of waste materials are generated in the production and use processes of the photosensitive materials, and the silver is recovered from the waste photosensitive materials and becomes a precious secondary silver resource. The solid-phase photosensitive material includes: waste films (motion picture films, various black and white color films, X-ray films), waste photographic papers, lithographic films, etc., contain about 0.2-5% silver. There are 3 types of methods for recovering silver from such waste photosensitive materials: (1) the burning method is that the solid-phase photosensitive material is burned at the temperature of over 400 ℃, the film base is burned off, silver-containing ash is left, and the silver is recovered by smelting or wet method. The main disadvantages are that burning off the substrate is both wasteful and environmentally polluting. (2) The chemical method is that acid, alkali, salt, etc. are used to dissolve silver layer on the film to obtain silver mud, and the silver mud is further treated to obtain silver. The most chemical method is used, which can keep the film base, but some reagents are corrosive to the equipment, the waste liquid pollutes the environment, (3) the biochemical method, such as US3748123, adopts protease to process the film, so that the silver-containing emulsion layer is reacted with enzyme to separate from the film base, the silver-containing emulsion solution is processed to obtain silver mud, and the silver mud is separated and then processed to obtain metallic silver.
The invention aims to find out proper conditions for biochemical treatment of waste solid photosensitive materials generated in factories to recycle silver and film substrates, and further research out a better scheme for separating and recycling silver into metallic silver.
The method for recovering silver from solid-phase photosensitive material includes dissolving silver emulsion layer with proteinase, settling, separating silver mud, roasting silver mud, leaching the roasted residue with water, smelting the leached residue to obtain metal silverSeveral steps. The specific method comprises (1) cutting the solid phase photosensitive material, and eluting the silver-containing emulsion layer with neutral enzyme (5 ten thousand activity units) or alkaline enzyme (8 ten thousand activity units) solution under the following conditions: enzyme type concentration (g/L) temperature (DEG C) PH value liquid (volume, L):solid (weight, Kg) neutral enzyme 0.01-1.033-48-63-12: 1 alkaline enzyme 0.02-1.050-609-: neutral enzyme 0.01-1.040-45-64-10: 1 alkaline enzyme 0.05-1.050-609-113-5: 1, mechanically stirring, and taking out the substrate after the silver emulsion layer is dissolved. (2) Adjusting pH of the emulsion solution with dilute sulfuric acid, adjusting pH of neutral enzyme silver removing solution to 1.2-4.5, preferably pH to 1.2-2.5, and adjusting pH of alkaline enzyme silver removing solution to 2-5, preferably pH to 2-3.5, precipitating silver mud (AgBr as main component), filtering and separating silver mud. (3) Drying silver mud, grinding, adding sodium carbonate, its proportion is silver bromide quantity and sodium carbonate quantity (mole ratio)1: 1-2.2, roasting at the temperature of 550-700 ℃ for 1-3 hours to convert the silver bromide into silver, wherein the reaction is as follows: preferably sodium carbonate, the ratio of the silver bromide to the sodium carbonate is 1: 1-1.5, the mixture is baked for 2-3 hours at the temperature of 650-,preferably, the sodium bromide formed by the reaction is dissolved by leaching with hot water at a temperature of approximately 80 ℃, and the solution containing less than 0.000Xg/l of silver is discarded.
(4) After the roasted water leached slag is dried, flux (sodium carbonate + borax + saltpeter) is added to smelt, the proportion of the flux is that the weight ratio of the sodium carbonate to the borax to the saltpeter is 30-10: 10-3: 1, the weight ratio of the flux is 11-10: 6-5: 1, the pure silver is obtained after smelting for more than 0.5h at the temperature of 1000-1100 ℃, the best 1050-1100 ℃ and the best-quality silver is obtained. The purity of the silver is 99.9-99.99%, the direct recovery rate is 97-99.7%, and the total recovery rate is-100%.
The invention has the advantages that: 1. can recover silver and base material at the same time, the silver purity is high, 99.99%, the recovery rate is high, more than 99%, 2, the method condition is easy to master and operate, the reagent is the ordinary reagent, the apparatus is also a general apparatus. 3. The solid-phase photosensitive material can be used for hard-to-process oil color positive sheets or waste liquor concentrate with complex composition and low silver content. 4. The waste water contains low silver, does not corrode equipment and does not pollute the environment.
Examples
Example 1, waste X-ray film was shredded and analyzed for silver content by stripping, sedimentation and analysis of the supernatant using neutral protease (5 ten thousand activity units) or alkaline protease (8 ten thousand activity units) at 2.613% silver content as follows: enzyme type concentration (g/L) temperature (deg.C) liquid (volume, L) to elution sedimentation supernatant
Solid (Kg) pH value Agg/L neutral enzyme 0.01-1.040-454: 1-61.5-2.5<0.0038 alkaline enzyme 0.05-1.050-603: 19-112-3.5<0.0008
Example 2, waste X-ray film, 9260g, contained 2.613% silver in an amount of 241.98g, cut into pieces of about 6X 8 cm.
(1) Dissolving silver-containing emulsion layer in 0.5g/l solution of neutral proteinase at 33-43 deg.C and pH 6 under the condition of liquid (volume, l) and solid (weight, Kg) 10: 1, removing film base, (2) using dilute sulfuric acid to regulate pH 1.5 of solution, making silver mud (mainly AgBr) settle, separating silver mud, analyzing silver content, the silver content of solution is 0.0058% of total silver content, silver mud is 99.95% and film base is 0.047%, (3) drying silver mud, according to the silver content of AgBr and Na2CO3Mixing silver mud and sodium carbonate uniformly in a molar ratio of 1: 1, putting the mixture into a ceramic evaporating dish, roasting the mixture for 3 hours at the temperature of 700 ℃, cooling the mixture, leaching NaBr by using hot water at the temperature of 85-90 ℃ through mechanical stirring, filtering and washing the mixture, wherein water leaching residues are crude sponge silver, and roasting and leaching results are as follows: leaching residue contains 99.99% silver, leaching liquid contains 0.0098%, baking the residue, adding flux (sodium carbonate, borax and saltpeter) in the weight ratio of 100: 33, smelting at 1050 deg.C for 0.5 hr to obtain 241.303g of pure silver with purity of 99.99%, 99.78% of silver in the residue and 0.22% of silver in the residue. The direct silver yield was 99.72% from film.
Example 3
10102g of color positive plate containing Ag 2.98% and 301.44g of silver was cut into strips of about 10X 3.5cm, and the strips were processed by the same procedure and conditions as in processing example 2 to obtain 295g of metallic silver with a purity of 99.9%, a straight yield of 97.57%, a slag silver content of 2.13%, and an overall recovery of-100%.
Example 4
3445g of silver mud containing silver concentrate, 22.86% of Ag and 787.53g of silver content in coating and washing wastewater of a photosensitive material factory, 773.2g of metal obtained by treatment in the steps (3) and (4) of the treatment example 2, the purity of 99.95%, the direct yield of 98.16% and the silver content in slag of 1%.
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1. The method for recovering silver from the solid-phase photosensitive material comprises the steps of dissolving a silver emulsion layer by using protease, settling and separating silver mud, roasting the silver mud, soaking roasting slag in water, and smelting the water leaching slag to obtain metallic silver, and is characterized in that:
1.1 chopping the solid phase photosensitive material, and leaching the silver-containing emulsion layer with a neutral enzyme (5 ten thousand activity units) or an alkaline enzyme (8 ten thousand activity units) solution under the following conditions: pH value liquid (volume, L) and solid (weight, Kg) neutral enzyme 0.01-1.033-48-63-12: 1 alkaline enzyme 0.02-1.050-609-114-10: 1, mechanically stirring, taking out the substrate after the silver emulsion layer is dissolved,
1.2 adjusting the pH value of the desilvering emulsion solution obtained by 1.1 by using dilute sulfuric acid, settling silver mud (mainly AgBr), filtering and separating, wherein the pH value of a neutral enzyme desilvering solution is 1.2-4.5, and the pH value of an alkaline enzyme desilvering solution is 2-5,
1.3 drying the silver mud obtained in 1.2, grinding, adding sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide according to the molar ratio of silver bromide to sodium carbonate (or sodium hydroxide) of 1: 1-2.2, roasting for 1-3 hours at 550-700 ℃, leaching the roasted slag with hot water, preferably hot water at about 80 ℃, separating and removing the leachate,
1.4 after baking the roasted-water leaching slag obtained in the step 1.3, adding a flux (sodium carbonate, borax and saltpeter) for smelting, wherein the weight ratio of the flux to the sodium carbonateis 100: 40-20, the weight ratio of the flux to the borax to the saltpeter is 30-10: 10-3: 1, smelting at the temperature of 1000 ℃ and 1100 ℃, and keeping the temperature for more than 0.5h to obtain the pure silver.
2. The method of recovering silver from a solid-phase photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein:
2.1 stripping the silver-containing emulsion layer with neutral enzyme (5 ten thousand activity units) or alkaline enzyme (8 ten thousand activity units) under the following conditions: the pH value liquid (volume, L) and solid (weight, Kg) neutral enzyme with the enzyme type concentration (g/L) temperature (DEG C) are 0.01-1.040-45-64-10: 1 alkaline enzyme 0.05-1.050-609-113-5: 1 solid phase photosensitive material, the solid phase photosensitive material is cut up, mechanically stirred, the substrate is fished out after the silver emulsion layer is dissolved and removed,
2.2 adjusting pH of the emulsion solution with dilute sulfuric acid to 2.1, precipitating silver mud (AgBr as main component) with neutral enzyme (pH 1.5-2.5) and alkaline enzyme (pH 2-3.5), filtering,
2.3 drying the silver mud (the main component is AgBr) obtained in 2.2, grinding, adding sodium carbonate, roasting for 2-3 hours at the temperature of 650 ℃ and 700 ℃, leaching sodium bromide from the roasted slag by hot water at the temperature of-80 ℃, separating the leaching solution,
2.4 after baking the water leaching slag obtained in 2.3, adding flux (sodium carbonate, borax and saltpeter) for smelting, wherein the proportion of the flux to the material is 100: 30-20, the weight ratio of the sodium carbonate to the borax to the saltpeter is 11-10: 6-5: 1, and smelting for about 0.5 hour at 1050-1100 ℃ to obtain the pure silver.
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