Development of in-situ electro-generated chlorine leaching and its application to the leaching of platinum

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

An in-situ electro-generated chlorine leaching with a closed recycling unit of unconsumed gas was developed for precious metal dissolution and applied to the leaching of platinum from a spent automotive catalyst containing 0.13 wt% Pt. Cathodic current in a cathodic compartment of the chlorine generation cell reduces the unconsumed chlorine gas into chloride ions for further chlorine generation. The electro-reduction efficiency was 99.4% in alkaline 2 M NaCl solution, whereas 80.8% in 35% HCl solution at 0.62 mmol min−1 supply rate of unconsumed chlorine gas.
The 98.3% platinum from the spent automotive catalyst leached without discharging the unconsumed chlorine gas into the air at 100 g L−1 solid/liquid ratio and 80°C in a 7 M HCl solution.
Increasing the solid/liquid ratio to 400 g L−1 drastically decreased the leaching percentage to 16.5% in 90 minutes by possible adsorption of leached Pt to the porous surface of the automotive catalyst carrier.

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