Recovery of rare earth elements with ionic liquids
Recovery of rare earth elements with ionic liquids
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利用离子液体回收稀土元素
DOI:
10.1039/c7gc02141k
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发表时间:
2017-10
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9.8
通讯作者:
Kaiying Wang;H. Adidharma;M. Radosz;P. Wan;Xin Xu;Christopher K. Russell;Hanjing Tian;M. Fan;Jiang Yu
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作者:
Kaiying Wang;H. Adidharma;M. Radosz;P. Wan;Xin Xu;Christopher K. Russell;Hanjing Tian;M. Fan;Jiang Yu
Rare earth elements (REEs) are in high demand as critical materials in modern green and other advanced technologies. This review focuses on the recovery of REEs from waste with ionic liquids (ILs) as green dilutants and extractants to tackle the REE supply challenge. Extraction mechanisms in different extraction systems, including pure ILs, non-functional ILs with extractants, and functional ILs, are discussed in depth. The IL-based extraction process is different from the traditional molecular solvent-based extraction process. In addition, stripping is crucial to recovering ILs, and supercritical CO2 (Sc-CO2) is introduced to recover REE complexes from the IL phase. Also, Sc-CO2 can accelerate the whole extraction process by enhancing mass transfer. The challenge is to understand the extraction mechanism of the IL/Sc-CO2 system to advance the green recovery of REEs from waste.