Method for whole component microwave fast digestion and precious metal extraction from ionic liquid of waste circuit board

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022267879-A1
Application number	US-202217743385-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 12, 2022
Priority date	Jan 23, 2020
Publication date	Aug 25, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

The invention discloses Method for whole component microwave fast digestion and precious metal extraction from ionic liquid of waste circuit board, and belongs to the field of hydrometallurgy. Based on the theory that microwaves can directly penetrate through a leaching medium to directly heat a circuit board, microwave-assisted leaching can reinforce mass transfer and heat transfer in the traditional leaching process, the leaching time is greatly shortened, and the leaching efficiency is improved. Before leaching, a waste circuit board does not need to be smashed, and environmental protection is achieved while energy is saved. The temperature rising process and reaction time of the reaction can be controlled, the whole process is conducted under the airtight condition, heat loss in the leaching process is avoided, the valuable leaching rate is high, the selectivity is high, and efficient leaching of valuable metal can be achieved. Precious metal leachate is extracted through imidazolium ionic liquid, the selectivity of the imidazolium ionic liquid to gold is high, and the co-extraction phenomenon of gold, nickel, copper and other ions is avoided. The method for extracting the precious metal leachate through ionic liquid is a green and clean recycling method, and the overall recycling rate of gold, nickel and copper can reach 99% or above

First claim

We claim:

1 . A method for whole component microwave fast digestion and precious metal extraction from ionic liquid of waste circuit board is characterized in that: the method including the following steps:
(1) pretreatment of waste circuit boards: cut the waste circuit boards into small pieces to obtain the waste circuit boards to be leached; (2) configuration of precious metal leaching solution for waste circuit boards: add pure water, thiourea, sulfuric acid, and sodium peroxide to the beaker, and stir until all are dissolved to obtain the leaching solution; the concentration of the extract is: thiourea: 1.5-4 mol/L, sulfuric acid 0.5-2 mol/L, sodium peroxide 1-3 mol/L; (3) microwave-assisted leaching of waste circuit boards: put the pretreatment circuit boards in the digestion tank, and pour the leaching solution into the digestion tank at the same time, the heating time of microwave digestion instrument is set to 1-1.5 h, heating temperature of microwave digestion instrument is set to 180-200° C. with 20 min insulation, cooling time of microwave digestion instrument is set to 15-30 min, cool down to 60° C. to obtain precious metal leachate and resin-containing waste residue; (4) after filtration, place the precious metal leachate in step (3) in the extraction tank, add imidazole ionic liquid [BMIM][NTF2] according to the volume ratio of the ionic liquid to the precious metal leachate is 1:1 to 1:5, and fully stir for 5 to 15 minutes to make oil and liquid phases are thoroughly mixed; the obtained mixed phase is centrifuged and separated to obtain an organic phase and a raffinate; (5) add oxalic acid solution to the organic phase obtained in step (4) according to the volume ratio of the organic phase to the oxalic acid solution is 1:1 to 1:10, the concentration of the oxalic acid solution is 1-3 mol/L, and back extraction is performed; stirred for 5-15 minutes to make the oil and liquid phase fully mixed; after centrifuging and separating the obtained mixed phase, a back extraction raffinate and a pure ionic liquid are obtained; (6) the back extraction raffinate in step (5) is filtered to obtain the first tail liquid and crude gold powder; (7) precious metal separation of raffinate: add sodium hydroxide to the raffinate obtained in step (4), adjust the pH to 6.7-7.0, undergoes hydrolyze precipitation and filtration to obtain copper hydroxide precipitation and copper removal solution; add solids sodium hydroxide to the copper removal solution, adjust the pH to 9.5-10.0, process hydrolyze the precipitation and filtration to obtain nickel hydroxide precipitate and second tail liquid.

2 . A method for whole component microwave fast digestion and precious metal extraction from ionic liquid of waste circuit board according to claim 1 is characterized in that: in step (5), the organic phase ionic liquid is recycled to step (4) to repeat the extraction.

3 . A method for whole component microwave fast digestion and precious metal extraction from ionic liquid of waste circuit board according to claim 1 is characterized in that: in step (6), the first tail liquid undergoes evaporation and crystallization to recover sodium chloride.

4 . A method for whole component microwave fast digestion and precious metal extraction from ionic liquid of waste circuit board according to claim 1 is characterized in that: add sulfuric acid, thiourea, and sodium peroxide to the second tail liquid obtained in step (7) to make the sulfuric acid, thiourea, and sodium peroxide in the second tail liquid meet the concentration standard of the leaching solution in step (2), repeat until the sulfate reaches saturation, then, the second tail liquid does not return to the leaching process.

Assignees

• Univ Beijing Technology

Inventors

• Wu Yufeng
• Yan Jiewen
• Li Bin

Classifications

• C22B23/0461 Primary

  by chemical methods · CPC title

• C22B15/0089

  by chemical methods · CPC title

• C22B3/362 Primary

  Heterocyclic compounds of a single type · CPC title

• C22B23/043

  Sulfurated acids or salts thereof · CPC title

• C22B15/0071

  containing sulfur · CPC title