Recovery of Precious Metal Material Ni from Nickel Containing Wastewater Using Electrolysis

Abstract:

The recovery of Ni2+ from nickel containing solution is a worthwhile work, owing to its precious value. In the present work, the optimal values of electrolysis (EL) operating parameters were elaborately investigated using Taguchi approach. The effect of Ni2+ initial concentration, boric acid, pH, and voltage were investigated in terms of nickel recovery and energy consumption. The results obtained showed that the influential factors on nickel recovery were voltage > boric acid > pH > concentration. However, in terms of energy consumption the following order of concentration > boric acid > pH > voltage was obtained. A confirmation experiment was carried out with the optimized parameters (boric acid 18g/L, nickel concentration 1000 mg/L, voltage applied 4.0 V, and pH 4). The recovery of Ni2+ yielded about 88%, and the outlet Ni2+ was as low as 119 mg/L. The electrolysis dynamic mode was investagated with flow rate 20 mL/min. The results showed that the outlet nickel concentration was 350 mg/L equal to 65% of Ni2+ recovery and energy consumption of 25.7 kW h/kg. Electrolysis could effectively recover nickel, however the Ni2+ concentration of the residual electrolyte was much higher than the restriction of 1 mg/L, so we used electrodialysis to further treat the residual electrolyte and the nickel concentration has been reduced below 1 mg/L , which will be discussed in other paper.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 164)
• Pages: 263-267
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.164.263
• Online since: April 2012
• Authors: Rui Jie Jin, Chang Sheng Peng, Ahmed Abou-Shady, Ke Dong Zhang
• Keywords: Efficiency, Electrolysis, Nickel Recovery, Precious Metal Material, Taguchi Approach

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