A process for making modified diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA)-associated media for use in solid-liquid extraction of rare earth elements is disclosed. The process includes functionalizing DTPA with hydrophobic groups to form modified DTPA; dissolving the modified DTPA into a methanol solution; loading the modified DTPA solution to a solid support; rotating the modified DTPA-loaded solid support to allow for association; and removing the methanol to obtain the modified-DTPA-associated media.

A tungsten recovery method including leaching tungsten while suppressing leaching of silicon by using a weak alkali compound with respect to a tungsten raw material containing silicon with tungsten oxide, separating most of the silicon as a residue during the leaching of the tungsten, and recovering a tungsten leachate having an extremely low silicon concentration.

The present invention relates to a method for recycling iron and aluminum in a nickel-cobalt-manganese solution. The method comprises the following steps: leaching a battery powder and removing copper therefrom to obtain a copper-removed solution, and adjusting the pH value in stages to remove iron and aluminum, so as to obtain a goethite slag and an iron-aluminum slag separately; mixing the iron-aluminum slag with an alkali liquor, and heating and stirring same to obtain an aluminum-containing solution and alkaline slag; and heating and stirring the aluminum-containing solution, introducing carbon dioxide thereto and controlling the pH value to obtain aluminum hydroxide and an aluminum-removed solution.

A method for recovery of metals from Jarosite waste for its effective utilization wherein, the treatment of nitric acid to jarosite waste extracts the nitrates of lead, cadmium, iron, copper, nickel, zinc, aluminum, manganese, cobalt, magnesium and calcium in the filtrate; the treatment of sulfuric acid to the residue obtained from step (a) extracts the metal in the form of ferrous sulfate, aluminum sulfate, zinc sulfate and calcium sulfate in the filtrate; and the treatment of alkali to the residue obtained from step (a) extracts the metal in the form of sodium silicate and sodium aluminate in the filtrate. The silver present in the Jarosite waste as sulfate/silicate is not extracted in nitric acid, sulfuric acid or alkali. Thus, the remaining residue is enriched with silver concentration to at least 2000 ppm, where silver can be easily recoverable and has good commercial value.

A method for recovering metal oxides from a paint sludge. The method may include obtaining a first mixture by evaporating an organic part of the paint sludge. Evaporating the organic part of the paint sludge may include heating the paint sludge in a furnace. The method may further include precipitating a second mixture from the first mixture by mixing the first mixture and a sodium hydroxide solution. The method may further include recovering titanium dioxide from the second mixture by mixing the second mixture with a hydrochloric acid solution.

Methods for recovery of at least one rare earth metal from ferromagnetic alloy are described, and further methods of atomic hydrogen decrepitation of a ferromagnetic alloy.

The present invention is a process for directly recovering lithium and valuable transition metals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese from waste cathode and anode powder of spent lithium ion batteries into high grade products through a cascade reduction reaction scheme, followed by digestion and precipitation circuit using CO.sub.2 as media, and a series of physical separation procedures.

The present disclosure relates to the field of the preparation of high purity sodium and the safe treatment of sodium calcium slag, and discloses a method and apparatus for sodium slag recovery by using gravity separation—controllable combustion—alkaline liquor leaching process for the preparation of high purity sodium and safe treatment of sodium calcium slag. The method comprises the following steps: (1) subjecting a liquid sodium slag to a gravity stratification to obtain pure metallic sodium and high calcium content sodium slag; (2) roasting the high calcium content sodium slag to obtain a roasting slag; and (3) leaching the roasting slag by using an alkaline liquor to obtain the sodium hydroxide solution and calcium hydroxide. The method and apparatus provided by the present disclosure have advantages including high efficiency separation of sodium and calcium, saving separation time, safe and controllable production process, and continuous production process, thereby providing a safe and efficient method for the preparation of high purity sodium and safe treatment of new sodium calcium slag generated by the method, allowing continuous production of high purity sodium and safe recycle of new sodium calcium slag.

The present disclosure relates to the field of non-ferrous metal and chemical industries for the production of metal sodium, and discloses a process for the preparation of high purity metallic sodium and the safe treatment of high calcium content sodium slag, the process comprises the following steps: (1) subjecting a liquid sodium obtained from electrolysis to a supergravity separation to obtain a high purity metallic sodium and a high calcium content sodium slag; (2) subjecting said high calcium content sodium slag to at least one roasting process to obtain a roasting slag; (3) leaching said roasting slag with an alkaline liquor to produce sodium hydroxide solution and calcium hydroxide. The process provided by the present disclosure not only greatly reduces the amount of generated sodium slag, but also implements the safe recovery of calcium and sodium resources from the sodium slag.

A method for recycling a lithium battery cathode material. Residual aluminum on the positive electrode sheet is dissolved by a sodium hydroxide solution, and lithium in the cathode material enters the solution during the dissolution of aluminum, such that an ionic potential is vacated on the cathode material; a residue is washed to avoid sodium ion contamination, then dried, and allowed to react with metallic lithium and lithium sulfide under heating, such that crystal lattices of the material change; a product after first-stage lithium supplementation is directly sintered with a lithium source in an oxygen atmosphere to obtain monocrystalline ternary cathode material agglomerates, where a sintering method and a sintering temperature are controlled; and the agglomerates are crushed, then washed to remove residual lithium on the surface, and dried to obtain a monocrystalline ternary cathode material, which has the performance close to that of the initially synthesized monocrystalline cathode material.