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Copper and Cyanide Extraction with Emulsion Liquid Membrane with LIX 7950 as the Mobile Carrier: Part 1, Emulsion Stability Lu, Diankun; Chang, Yongfeng; Wang, Wei; Xie, Feng; Asselin, Edouard; Dreisinger, David

Abstract

The potential use of emulsion liquid membranes (ELMs) with LIX 7950 as the mobile carrier to remove heavy metals from waste cyanide solutions has been proposed. Relatively stable ELMs with reasonable leakage and swelling can be formed under suitable mixing time and speed during emulsification. The concentration of LIX 7950 and Span 80 in the membrane phase, KOH in the internal phase and the volume ratio of membrane to internal phases are also critical to ELM formation. The efficiency of copper and cyanide removal from dilute cyanide solution by ELMs is related to ELM stability to some extent. More than 90% copper and cyanide can be removed from dilute cyanide solutions by ELMs formed under suitable experimental conditions.

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Title
Copper and Cyanide Extraction with Emulsion Liquid Membrane with LIX 7950 as the Mobile Carrier: Part 1, Emulsion Stability
Creator
Lu, Diankun; Chang, Yongfeng; Wang, Wei; Xie, Feng; Asselin, Edouard; Dreisinger, David
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2015-11-04
Description
The potential use of emulsion liquid membranes (ELMs) with LIX 7950 as the mobile carrier to remove heavy metals from waste cyanide solutions has been proposed. Relatively stable ELMs with reasonable leakage and swelling can be formed under suitable mixing time and speed during emulsification. The concentration of LIX 7950 and Span 80 in the membrane phase, KOH in the internal phase and the volume ratio of membrane to internal phases are also critical to ELM formation. The efficiency of copper and cyanide removal from dilute cyanide solution by ELMs is related to ELM stability to some extent. More than 90% copper and cyanide can be removed from dilute cyanide solutions by ELMs formed under suitable experimental conditions.
Subject
Emulsion liquid membrane; LIX 7950; Stability; Copper cyanides
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2019-05-31
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0379219
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70445
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Materials Engineering, Department of
Citation
Metals 5 (4): 2034-2047 (2015)
Publisher DOI
10.3390/met5042034
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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