Novel Fluorinated Tensioactive Extractant Combined with Flotation for Decontamination of Extractant Residual during Solvent Extraction

2017 International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Energy Engineering

生态环境科学;工业技术;能源学

Wu, Xue^1 ; Chang, Zhidong^1 ; Liu, Yao^1 ; Choe, Chol Ryong^1,2

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing

100083, China^1

School of Application Chemistry, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang

999093, Korea, Republic of^2

关键词: Adsorption process;    Amphiphilic character;    Flotation performance;    Fluorinated solvents;    Operating parameters;    Solubility in waters;    Surface tension measurements;    Volume concentration;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/104/1/012014/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/104/1/012014

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Solvent-extraction is widely used in chemical industry. Due to the amphiphilic character, a large amount of extractant remains in water phase, which causes not only loss of reagent, but also secondary contamination in water phase. Novel fluorinated extractants with ultra-low solubility in water were regarded as effective choice to reduce extractant loss in aqueous phase. However, trace amount of extractant still remained in water. Based on the high tensioactive aptitude of fluorinated solvent, flotation was applied to separate fluorinated extractant remaining in raffinate. According to the data of surface tension measurement, the surface tension of solution was obviously decreased with the addition of fluorinated extractant tris(2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5-octafluoropentyl) phosphate (FTAP). After flotation, the FTAP dissolved in water can be removed as much as 70%, which proved the feasibility of this key idea. The effects of operation time, gas velocity, pH and salinity of bulk solution on flotation performance were discussed. The optimum operating parameters were determined as gas velocity of 12ml/min, operating time of 15min, pH of 8.7, and NaCl volume concentration of 1.5%, respectively. Moreover, adsorption process of FTAP on bubble surface was simulated by ANSYS VOF model using SIMPLE algorithm. The dynamic mechanism of flotation was also theoretically investigated, which can be considered as supplement to the experimental results.