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Method and equipment for purifying ytterbium and gathering thulium and lutetium Download PDF

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CN1796608A
CN1796608A CN 200410101606 CN200410101606A CN1796608A CN 1796608 A CN1796608 A CN 1796608A CN 200410101606 CN200410101606 CN 200410101606 CN 200410101606 A CN200410101606 A CN 200410101606A CN 1796608 A CN1796608 A CN 1796608A
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This invention relates to a electrolysis method and facility for the purification of ytterbium and concentration of thulium and lutetium, in which ytterbium is reduced to bivalence and separated from the thulium-ytterbium-lutetium concentrates. As for the facility, hydrargyrum is adopted as cathode and ruthenium-iridium-titanium alloy is adopted as anode, with an anion exchange membrane separating the two parts. During the electrolysis, a sulfuric acid solution of thulium-ytterbium-lutetium concentrate with a pH valute of 0.1~4.0 serves as cathode liquid and an aqueous sulfuric acid solution with a proton concentration of 0.1~3.0mol/L serves as anode liquid. This method greatly reduces the manufacture cost and is simplified in both the process technique and actual operation.

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The method and apparatus of a kind of purifying ytterbium and gathering thulium and lutetium
Technical field
The present invention relates to the method and apparatus of a kind of electrolytic reduction purifying ytterbium and gathering thulium and lutetium.
Background technology
Heavy rare earth element (thulium, ytterbium, lutetium) has many good characteristics, and begun to be applied in the hi-tech field of functional materials, but because at present thulium, ytterbium, the separating technology cost height of lutetium, treatment capacity are little, cause its price high for a long time, seriously limited the research and the application development of heavy rare earths.At present, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium enriched substance mainly adopt extraction process, chromatography and reduction method (amalgamation process, electrolytic process and metallothermics) to carry out.
Chinese patent literature CN 1131200 has reported a kind of method with hybrid extraction system extracting and separating thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, though having overcome chromatography, this method produces the main drawback that exists in high-purity heavy rare earths technology, processing condition have been simplified, making production cost extract the drip washing chromatography has had significantly reduction, but still has problems such as the extraction agent occupancy is big, separation efficiency is not high.Also there is the article report to mix use separately or with other acidic phosphorus extractant with novel extraction agent Cyanex272, to reduce extraction and back extraction acidity, improve the separation factor between thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, but because the little and easy emulsification of price height, loading capacity of Cyanex272, thereby also be difficult to reach the requirement of optimizing technology.
Chromatography comprises extraction chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography, but because the extraction chromatography exchange process is slow, processing power is little, the production cycle is long, wastewater discharge is big simultaneously, and the reagent price is expensive, though can obtain a small amount of ultra-pure product, be difficult to satisfy the industrial production requirement of large-tonnage product.
Because the main component in thulium, ytterbium, the lutetium enriched substance is a ytterbium, it has reducible characteristic, thereby reduction method extraction ytterbium is a kind of feasible production method.The rare earth method of reducing mainly contains methods such as amalgam reduction extraction process, metallothermic reduction, electrolytic reduction.The amalgam reduction extraction process generally adopts the amalgam of alkali-metal that the ytterbium in acetic acid or the sulphosalicylic acid solution is reduced into metal and is extracted into and forms the ytterbium amalgam in the mercury.The ytterbium amalgam is again through oxidation, washing, pickling, ammonia precipitation process or oxalic acid precipitation, obtains the ytterbium product of certain purity after the calcination, can obtain higher yield through circular treatment repeatedly, but reduction extraction in the production process and postprocessing working procedures complexity.
The metallothermic reduction method is to adopt cheap lanthanum or cerium metal under vacuum condition ytterbium at first to be reduced and distill, and collects and obtains the ytterbium metal, and thulium, lutetium exist with oxide form respectively, extract or stratography after acid is molten.This method equipment complexity, process control cost height is simultaneously because the restriction of equipment scale can't realize industrialization at present.
Utilize the variable valence characteristic (trivalent ytterbium can be reduced into divalence, and there are very big difference in the physicochemical property of divalence ytterbium and other trivalent rare earth ions) of ytterbium, can from the mixture of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, separate ytterbium.There is the article report to do negative electrode with the mercury metal electrode, iron plate is done the electrolytic reduction process of anodic ytterbium, but when doing anode with iron plate, iron loses two electronics at anode and becomes ferrous ion and enter solution, owing to participating in reaction, iron enters solution, cause anolyte must change over time, cause certain waste, thereby and iron ion be penetrated into negative electrode by anion-exchange membrane and polluted catholyte.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to overcome above-mentioned the deficiencies in the prior art part, with electrolytic reduction, utilize ytterbium to have the character of appraising at the current rate, adopt anion-exchange membrane to make membranous electrolyzer, make negative electrode with mercury metal, the ruthenium-iridium-tantalum alloy network is made anodic one cover electrolyzer, ytterbium is reduced to the divalence state in sulfuric acid system, form precipitation with sulfuric acid, thereby reach and thulium, the isolating purpose of lutetium.Gained thulium, lutetium mixture and then obtain separating with extracting process.Because the treatment capacity that reduction is carried behind the ytterbium reduces greatly, and the separation factor of thulium, lutetium is relatively large, adopts extracting process to be easy to realize high-purity cheaply thulium, lutetium production.
Processing method of the present invention may further comprise the steps:
A. the preparation of negative electrode earth solution: with the sulphuric acid soln of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium enriched substance, concentration is the solution of 0.05-1.0mol/L, and the pH of solution is 0.1-4.0, and the concentration of solution is more preferably greater than 0.2mol/L, and pH is more preferably greater than 2.0;
B. the preparation of anolyte: Dilution of sulphuric acid is become [H +] be the aqueous solution of 0.1-3.0mol/L, [H +] more preferably greater than 1mol/L;
C. earth solution and aqueous sulfuric acid were put in the electrolyzer cathode and anode chamber in 1: 1 by volume;
D. electrolysis: be that more preferably greater than 20 ℃, the whipping appts that starts negative electrode stirs under 5-80 ℃ the situation in temperature, stirring velocity is at 10-600rpm, more preferably greater than 60rpm; Carry out electrolysis for negative electrode and anodal closure, voltage is 2.0-10.0V, more preferably greater than 5.0V;
E. separate: treat to stop after the electrolysis fully, solution, ytterbium sulfate precipitation are separated with mercury, solution advances extraction tank and carries out extracting and separating thulium and lutetium;
F. washing: the ytterbium sulfate precipitation that obtains is washed 1-10 time, more preferably greater than 5 times.
Wherein the sulphuric acid soln of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium enriched substance can obtain through sulfuric acid dissolution with carbonate, oxyhydroxide or the oxide compound of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium enriched substance, is preferably the carbonate of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium enriched substance.
For achieving the above object, equipment of the present invention is constructed as follows: it comprises cell body, negative electrode, anode, between negative electrode and anode ion-exchange membrane is arranged, and is divided into cathode compartment and anolyte compartment, and described cell body is a closed system, described anode ruthenium-iridium-tantalum alloy electrode, negative electrode is the mercury metal electrode, and ion-exchange membrane is an anion-exchange membrane, adorns agitator in the cathode compartment, has an anolyte import, the anolyte outlet has a catholyte import, the catholyte outlet.
The present invention compared with former Processes and apparatus, had following advantage:
1, simple in structure, disassembly, cleaning are convenient in the cathode and anode chamber;
2, cell body is a closed system, has avoided the volatilization of mercury and the oxidation of wandering and divalence ytterbium, can not pollute environment;
3, positive electricity ruthenium-iridium-tantalum alloy mesh electrode has very been avoided anodic consumption, need not frequently change anolyte, has reduced cost, and anolyte can not polluted yet simultaneously;
4, ytterbium and sulfuric acid form precipitation, are easy to realize and the separating of thulium, lutetium;
5, technological process is simple, is easy to control.
Following examples describe in further detail the present invention, but never constitute any limitation of the invention.
A. the preparation of negative electrode earth solution: after the carbonate of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium enriched substance added water and size mixing, use sulfuric acid dissolution, be mixed with the sulphuric acid soln of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium mixture, concentration is 0.2048mol/L, and the pH of regulator solution is 0.70;
B. the preparation of anolyte: sulfuric acid is diluted with water to [H +] be the solution of 2.0mol/L;
C. get 1000ml earth solution and 1000ml aqueous sulfuric acid respectively, put in electric tank cathode chamber 13 and the anolyte compartment 14;
D. electrolysis: under 20 ℃ situation, the whipping appts 15 that starts negative electrode stirs, and stirring velocity carries out electrolysis for negative electrode 11 and positive electrode 6 energisings at 400rpm, and voltage is 7.0V;
E. separate: treat to stop after the electrolytic reduction rate reaches 90%, solution, ytterbium sulfate precipitation are separated with mercury, solution advances extraction tank and carries out extracting and separating thulium and lutetium;
F. washing: the precipitation that will obtain washes with water 8 times.
Raw materials used ytterbium content is 83.6%, reduction ratio>90%, and the ytterbium purity that obtains is 99.6%
Accompanying drawing one is an equipment synoptic diagram of the present invention; Accompanying drawing two is a ruthenium-iridium-tantalum alloy mesh electrode synoptic diagram, and mesh is a rhombus.
Coding in the accompanying drawing one is respectively: the 1-current regulator power supply; The import of 2-catholyte, pneumatic outlet; The import of 3-anolyte, pneumatic outlet; The 4-volt ohm-milliammeter; The outlet of 5-anolyte; 6-ruthenium-iridium-tantalum alloy mesh electrode; The 7-ion-exchange membrane; The 8-saturated calomel electrode; The saturated KCl solution of 9-; The outlet of 10-catholyte; 11-mercury metal electrode; The 12-salt bridge; The 13-cathode compartment; The 14-anolyte compartment; The 15-whipping appts.

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1.一种利用电解还原纯化镱和富集铥、镥的方法,其特征在于按以下步骤进行:1. a method utilizing electrolytic reduction purification ytterbium and enriching thulium, lutetium, is characterized in that carrying out in the following steps: A.阴极稀土溶液的制备:将铥、镱、镥富集物的硫酸溶液,浓度为0.05-1.0mol/L的溶液,溶液的pH为0.1-4.0;A. Preparation of cathode rare earth solution: the sulfuric acid solution of thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium enrichment, the concentration is a solution of 0.05-1.0mol/L, and the pH of the solution is 0.1-4.0; B.阳极液的制备:将硫酸稀释成[H+]为0.1-3.0mol/L的水溶液;B. Preparation of anolyte: dilute sulfuric acid into [H + ] an aqueous solution of 0.1-3.0mol/L; C.将稀土溶液和硫酸水溶液按体积比1∶1投入到电解槽阴、阳极室中;C. Put the rare earth solution and the aqueous sulfuric acid solution into the negative and positive chambers of the electrolytic cell at a volume ratio of 1:1; D.电解:开动阴极的搅拌装置进行搅拌,搅拌速度在10-600rpm,给阴极和阳极通电进行电解,电压为2.0-8.0V;D. Electrolysis: Start the stirring device of the cathode to stir, the stirring speed is 10-600rpm, and the cathode and the anode are energized for electrolysis, and the voltage is 2.0-8.0V; E.分离:待电解完全后停止,将溶液、硫酸镱沉淀和汞分离,溶液进萃取槽进行萃取分离铥和镥;E. Separation: stop after the electrolysis is complete, separate the solution, ytterbium sulfate precipitation and mercury, and the solution enters the extraction tank for extraction and separation of thulium and lutetium; F.洗涤:将得到的硫酸镱沉淀水洗1-10次,最好大于5次。F. Washing: Wash the obtained ytterbium sulfate precipitate with water for 1-10 times, preferably more than 5 times. 2.根据权利要求1所述的电解方法,其特征在于所用的阴极溶液为铥、镱、镥的硫酸溶液;2. electrolysis method according to claim 1 is characterized in that used cathode solution is the sulfuric acid solution of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium; 3.根据权利要求2所述的电解方法,其特征在于所用的铥、镱、镥硫酸溶液为铥、镱、镥富集物的碳酸盐、氢氧化物或氧化物经硫酸溶解所得;3. electrolysis method according to claim 2 is characterized in that used thulium, ytterbium, lutetium sulfuric acid solution is the carbonate, hydroxide or oxide compound of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium concentrate obtained through sulfuric acid dissolution; 4.根据权利要求1所述的电解方法,其特征在于所用的阳极液为硫酸的水溶液;4. electrolysis method according to claim 1 is characterized in that used anolyte is the aqueous solution of sulfuric acid; 5.根据权利要求1所述的电解方法中所用的电解设备,包括稳压稳流电源1、阳电极6、阴电极11、离子交换膜7、搅拌装置15,其特征在于阴极室14内安装有搅拌装置15,阴极室14和阳极室13之间由离子交换膜隔开,阴极室14和阳极室13分别有进料口(出气口)2、3和出料口10、5,阴极室14和阳极室13为封闭体系;5. The electrolytic equipment used in the electrolytic method according to claim 1, comprising a constant voltage and constant current power supply 1, anode electrode 6, cathode electrode 11, ion exchange membrane 7, stirring device 15, it is characterized in that in the cathode chamber 14 There is a stirring device 15, and the cathode chamber 14 and the anode chamber 13 are separated by an ion-exchange membrane. The cathode chamber 14 and the anode chamber 13 have feed ports (gas outlets) 2, 3 and discharge ports 10, 5 respectively. 14 and the anode chamber 13 are closed systems; 6.根据权利要求5所述的电解设备,其特征在于阳电极6为钌铱钛合金网状电极,阴电极11为金属汞极,离子交换膜7为阴离子交换膜。6. The electrolytic device according to claim 5, characterized in that the positive electrode 6 is a ruthenium-iridium-titanium alloy mesh electrode, the negative electrode 11 is a metal mercury pole, and the ion-exchange membrane 7 is an anion-exchange membrane.
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