Papers by Author: Gui Fang Wang

Abstract: In this paper, sulfuric acid leaching was carried out to assess the effect of several parameters on metal extraction in a low grade complex gossan ore in which the grade of zinc and iron is 13% and 40.2%, respectively. Parameters, such as sulfuric acid concentration, liquid to solid ratio and leaching temperature, were studied. The results show that the zinc leaching rate is almost 80%, while the iron leaching rate is about 45% used strong acid with 200g/L. It can be seen from the results that sulfuric acid leaching could not effectively recover zinc from gossan ores studied in this paper because of iron dissolving greatly.

Abstract: Zinc ferrite is usually formed during the roasting of zinc sulfide concentrate with high content of iron and reduces zinc recovery during the leaching of zinc calcine. Because it is difficult to find pure zinc ferrite in nature ore resources or in chemicals market, which impedes the investigation of the reaction characteristics of zinc ferrite and the seek of new technologies for zinc ferrite dissolution, so it is of significance to obtain relatively pure zinc ferrite for further research on zinc calcine leaching. This article investigated the preparation process of zinc ferrite based on the dissolution characteristics of a zinc calcine with 19.38% iron and put forward a method to judge the reaction end point during the leaching of zinc calcine to produce zinc ferrite. The results show that the product of zinc ferrite could be prepared through recovering the leaching residue during leaching the zinc calcine under the initial H₂SO₄ concentration equal to or larger than 160g/L, and that the leaching end point can be judged by comparing the experimental curve of Zn leaching with the zinc theoretical dissolvability curve.

Abstract: Flotation is a conventional way for treating low grade metal oxide ore which has some advantages such as high efficiency and low cost. In order to recover the zinc from a low grade complex zinc oxide ore in which the grade of Zn is 13 wt.%, this paper presents a preliminary investigation of this type of ore by flotation method. In the experiments, the effects of different parameters such as grinding fineness, amount of Na₂SiO₃, amount of Na₂S and amount of octadecylamine were investigated in relation to the metal contents of concentrates. The results show that about 35% of initial Zn content was obtained with 70% -200 mesh grinding fineness, 1000g/t Na₂SiO₃, 2000g/t Na₂S and 500g/t octadecylamine. It is clear that the preliminary flotation tests with the ore sample indicated that there was no selectivity in terms of zinc recovery. Almost 65% zinc remained in the tailings and could not be recovered by flotation due to its complicated mineralogical structure. Therefore, application of metallurgical processes is proposed for zinc recovery from the tailings in the following investigations.

Abstract: In order to study the stability of Montmorillonite / Octadecyl trimethyl ammonium complexes in engineering application, the influences of the organic modifier dosage, oscillation intensity, oscillation time, temperature, pH, sodium salt concentration, calcium salt concentration on the stability of Montmorillonite / Octadecyl trimethyl ammonium complexes were systematically investigated. Research results show that the stability of Montmorillonite / Octadecyl trimethyl ammonium complexes slightly reduces with the increases of oscillation intensity, oscillation time and temperature, but the impact isn’t obvious. The more the organic modifier dosage is, the more unstable the Montmorillonite / Octadecyl trimethyl ammonium complexes are. The stability of the Montmorillonite / Octadecyl trimethyl ammonium complexes decreases significantly under the medium conditions of lower or higher pH. The higher the concentration of sodium salts is, the more stable the Montmorillonite / Octadecyl trimethyl ammonium complexes are, but calcium salts are on the contrary.

Abstract: In order to study the phase of Fe and Ti in a beach placer , different methods such as the X-ray diffraction analysis, chemical analysis, scanning electron microscopic , electron probe microanalysis are used to study the characteristics of the beach placer . The research results show the major metallic mineral in the beach placer is titanic magnetite, EDS and energy spectrum map features of which indicate that the vast majority of titanic magnetite contain a certain amount of Ti , the two elements of Fe and Ti take on closely symbiosis and distribute more evenly in titanic magnetite. The Ti exists in the Magnetite lattice in form of isomorphism. The theoretical highest grade of Fe and Ti in the separated Magnetic concentrate are 66.02per cent and 4.86 per cent respectively. In addition, the beach placer contains a small quantity of Ilmenite which is hysterogenic and exists in the form of fine solid solution separation structure in the titanic magnetite

Abstract: Al3+/clay ratio is one of the important factors influencing microstructure of Al-pillared montmorillonite. Microstructure variation laws of Al-pillared montmorillonite prepared under the condition of different Al3+/clay ratio are systematically studied by XRD, FTIR, specific surface area and pore size analysis. The results show that the interlayer spacing and BET specific surface area of Al-pillared montmorillonite are remarkably affected by the Al3+/clay ratio. The interlayer spacing d(001) value and BET specific surface area of Al-pillared montmorillonite increase firstly and then decrease with the increases of the Al3+/clay ratio, and they reach to maximum when the Al3+/clay ratio is 10mmol/g. Besides, the BJH porous volume distribution of Al-pillared montmorillonite is the most probable distribution, and the most probable pore size is about 2 nm, which is attributed to mesopore. The porous structure of hydroxy-Al pillared montmorillonite is characterized as parallel plate slit or “house-of-cards” wedge-shaped pore which is formed by novel meso-microporous delaminated structure and fragments. With the increase of the Al3+/clay ratio, BJH total porous volume and mesoporous volume of hydroxy-Al pillared montmorillonite decreases, while the proportion of microporous volume in the total porous volume increases. The proportion of microporous specific surface area of all the hydroxy-Al pillared montmorillonite samples is about 62% and is much larger than that of Na-M and those of mesopore and macropore, indicating the main action of intercalation of hydroxy-Al pillaring solution into montmorillonite interlayer is to increase the micropore amount.

Abstract: Using Octadecyltrimethylammonium (OTA) cations with long carbon chain to intercalate into Na-montmorillonite samples, the change of adsorption amount and adsorption state of OTA with the retention time was investigated. The sdudy on the reaction kinetics for the alkylammonium adsorption in the montmorillonite interlayers showed that the isothermal adsorption behavior fit in with a second order reaction kinetics equation. Reaction rate constants had great differences with application force of adsorption process. OTA in the montmorillonite interlayers through re-arrangement constantly at different time, adsorption state of OTA are analysised by XRD and FTIR. The interlayer spacing and diffraction peak relative intensity of montmorillonite/OTMA complexes shows a dynamic change, the alkyl chain conformations can change from “liquid-like” to “solid-like” with the reaction time. The arrangement of alkylammonium cations are more orderly.

Abstract: In this research, a leaching study was carried out to assess the effect of several parameters on zinc extraction in a low grade complex zinc oxide ore in which the grade of Zn is 13 wt.%, and 52.8% of Zn is contained in siderite, 34.63% in limonite and 11.55% in smithsonite. The influencing parameters investigated include sulfuric acid concentration, reaction temperature, reaction time and liquid to solid ratio (L/S). The results show that over 90% of Zn can be extracted from the low grade complex zinc oxide ore when the leaching process is operated in 2M sulfuric acid at 60°C for 2.5h with a liquid to solid ratio of 6:1.

Abstract: The desorption and regeneration of a novel granular bentonite composite adsorbent were investigated in this paper. Copper ions were adsorbed onto the composite adsorbent firstly, then the effects of reagent categories, reagent concentration, desorption time, adsorbed copper ion amount, and temperature on the desorption and regeneration of the adsorbent were studied. The results show that the desorption and regeneration of the composite adsorbent adsorbed copper ions can be carried out by acids, alkalis, or salts. The desorption and regeneration efficiency are closely connected with the experimental conditions and the categories of chemical reagents. Acids have the desorption capacity for composite adsorbent after adsorbing, but they need to be regenerated by other methods. Salts have both desorption and regeneration capacity. Alkalis show the strongest desorption and regeneration capacity.

Abstract: Alkaline leaching is an important way for treating low grade metal oxide ore, which has some advantages such as low corrosion and low pollution compared to acidic leaching. In order to recover the zinc from a low grade complex zinc oxide ore in which the grade of Zn and Fe are 13 wt.% and 40.2 wt.%, respectively, and 52.8% of Zn is contained in siderite, 34.63% in limonite and 11.55% in smithsonite, this paper presents a preliminary investigation of this type of ore by alkaline leaching method. In this study, ammonia-ammonium chloride and ammonia-ammonium carbonate were used as the leaching reagents. The effects of alkaline concentration, leaching time, leaching temperature and liquid to solid ratio (L/S) were studied, respectively. The results show that 43.15% of initial Zn content was extracted adopting ammonia-ammonium chloride as the leaching reagent in 4.5M at 30°C for 3h with a liquid to solid ratio of 4:1, while 43.07% of Zn recovery was achieved employing ammonia-ammonium carbonate as the leaching reagent at 5M, 30°C and 4:1(L/S). The low leaching rate of Zn is probably attributed to that the zinc contained in siderite was not extracted completely because Zn and Fe exist as isomorphism in siderite.