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Berhe, G., Velázquez del Rosario, A., Abubeker, Y., Girma, W., Bogale, T., Mulugeta Sisay, C. (2018). Green extraction of Niobium and Tantalum from Kenticha Tantalite ore using 1-Ethyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride ionic liquid. Journal of Mining and Environment, 9(4), 785-794. doi: 10.22044/jme.2018.6091.1425
G.G. Berhe; A. Velázquez del Rosario; Y. Abubeker; W. Girma; T. Bogale; C. Mulugeta Sisay. "Green extraction of Niobium and Tantalum from Kenticha Tantalite ore using 1-Ethyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride ionic liquid". Journal of Mining and Environment, 9, 4, 2018, 785-794. doi: 10.22044/jme.2018.6091.1425
Berhe, G., Velázquez del Rosario, A., Abubeker, Y., Girma, W., Bogale, T., Mulugeta Sisay, C. (2018). 'Green extraction of Niobium and Tantalum from Kenticha Tantalite ore using 1-Ethyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride ionic liquid', Journal of Mining and Environment, 9(4), pp. 785-794. doi: 10.22044/jme.2018.6091.1425
Berhe, G., Velázquez del Rosario, A., Abubeker, Y., Girma, W., Bogale, T., Mulugeta Sisay, C. Green extraction of Niobium and Tantalum from Kenticha Tantalite ore using 1-Ethyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride ionic liquid. Journal of Mining and Environment, 2018; 9(4): 785-794. doi: 10.22044/jme.2018.6091.1425

Green extraction of Niobium and Tantalum from Kenticha Tantalite ore using 1-Ethyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride ionic liquid

Article 1, Volume 9, Issue 4, Autumn 2018, Page 785-794  XML PDF (873.51 K)
Document Type: Case Study
DOI: 10.22044/jme.2018.6091.1425
Authors
G.G. Berhe email 1; A. Velázquez del Rosario2; Y. Abubeker3; W. Girma4; T. Bogale5; C. Mulugeta Sisay2
1Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
3School of Chemical and Bio Engineering, AAiT, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
4Research and Development Directorate, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Mines, Petroleum, and Natural Gas, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
5Department of Mining Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University, Australia
Abstract
The decomposition of the Ethiopian Kenticha tantalite ore was studied using the KOH fusion and H2O leaching system at 400 0C for a 1 h reaction time. The experimental results obtained showed that 27 wt% of Ta2O5 was mainly transformed into insoluble KTaO3, not to be KNbO3, and as well, into the dissolved liquor containing 94.73 vol% of Nb2O5 and 75.80 vol% of Ta2O5. The observations, supported by the EDXRF, XRD, and ICP-OES techniques, showed that the ratio of the dissolved mixture of Nb and Ta metal ions was beneficial to the solvent extraction from both Ta2O5 and Nb2O5. Niobium and tantalum were extracted from their neutralized alkaline dissolved and hydrolyzed solution by a new process using the EMIC/AlCl3 ionic liquid as the extractant using selective stripping, precipitation, and calcination of a highly crystalline pure 99.84 wt% of Nb2O5 and amophours 90.81 wt% of Ta2O5. The compositions of the dissolved metal ions and solids were analyzed by the ICP-OES, EDXRF, XRD, and FT-IR techniques.
Keywords
Decomposition; Ionic Liquid; Kenticha Tantalite Ore Mine
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Mineral Processing
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