A new technology for production of high purity paratungstate ammonium from low grade tungsten concentrate

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 171-176 - 1996
Peimei Sun1, Zhouxi Chen1, Honggui Li1, Yunjiao Li1, Maosheng Liu1, Shuqiao Chen2, Yongtang Liang2
1Department of Nonferrous Metallurgy, Central South University of Technology, Changsha, China
2Siquan Chemical Industrial Plant, China

Tóm tắt

A new technological process for production of paratungstate ammonium from low grade tungsten concentrate with a high content of calcium and impurities has been studied. The experiments show that average tungsten leaching efficiency of more than 96.92% can be obtained with a low NaOH consumption by using the mechanical activating caustic decomposition, and the content of main impurities (P, As, Si) in Na2WO4 solution obtained is competitive with that from standard wolframite concentrate by traditional caustic decomposition. After recovering caustic soda by crystallization, impure Na2WO4 solution is changed to (NH4)2WO4 solution by ion exchange method. Molybdenum may be removed from (NH4)2WO4 solution by new ion exchange method. Finally, paratungstate ammonium of high purity is obtained. This technology has the advantages of short technological process, high recovery of tungsten, high economic and social benifits.

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