Solvent extraction with a three-dimensional reticulated hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2021.05.018

中国化学工程学报 ›› 2022, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 53-62.DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2021.05.018

Solvent extraction with a three-dimensional reticulated hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor

Ye Zhang^1,2, Yong Gao², Peng Wang^1,2, Duo Na², Zhenming Yang², Jinsong Zhang²

1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
2 Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China

收稿日期:2021-03-01 修回日期:2021-05-26 出版日期:2022-06-28 发布日期:2022-07-20
通讯作者: Jinsong Zhang,E-mail:jszhang@imr.ac.cn
基金资助:
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0310405) and the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL) Program for Youth Talent (L2019F45).

Solvent extraction with a three-dimensional reticulated hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor

Ye Zhang^1,2, Yong Gao², Peng Wang^1,2, Duo Na², Zhenming Yang², Jinsong Zhang²

1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
2 Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China

Received:2021-03-01 Revised:2021-05-26 Online:2022-06-28 Published:2022-07-20
Contact: Jinsong Zhang,E-mail:jszhang@imr.ac.cn
Supported by:
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0310405) and the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL) Program for Youth Talent (L2019F45).

摘要/Abstract

摘要： Recently, there has been considerable interest in the use of microchannel reactors for hydrometallurgy of rare earths (REs). Here, a novel integrated microchannel reactor based on the hollow-strut SiC foam material is presented and demonstrated to extract Ce³⁺ and Pr³⁺ using 2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid mono-2-ethylhexyl ester (P507) as the extractant. The typical three-dimensional reticulated structure of the hollow-strut SiC foam was characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray micro computed tomography. Since the reactor’s structure plays a key role in fluid mixing and mass diffusion during the extraction process, the structure-performance relationship of the foam was studied by extraction experiments combined with numerical simulations. Using the foam with the optimal structure, the influence of the flow rate Q₀ of the two liquid phases on the extraction efficiency η and overall volume mass transfer coefficient K_La was discussed. For both RE ions, with increasing Q₀, η decreases while K_La increases. For the total flow rate of the two phases of 4 ml·min^-1, the η values of Pr³⁺ and Ce³⁺ reached 98.7% and 97.0%, respectively. For the total flow rate of 36 ml·min^-1 which was much higher than that of many other microchannel reactors reported in the literatures, the η values of Pr³⁺ and Ce³⁺ still reached 92.2% and 86.9%, respectively, and the K_La values of Pr³⁺ and Ce³⁺ were 0.198 and 0.161 s^-1, respectively, similar to the high values reported for other microchannel reactors studied in previous work. These findings indicate that the hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor is suitable for use in REs extraction.

关键词: Extraction, Hollow, Foam, Microchannels, Numerical simulation

Abstract: Recently, there has been considerable interest in the use of microchannel reactors for hydrometallurgy of rare earths (REs). Here, a novel integrated microchannel reactor based on the hollow-strut SiC foam material is presented and demonstrated to extract Ce³⁺ and Pr³⁺ using 2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid mono-2-ethylhexyl ester (P507) as the extractant. The typical three-dimensional reticulated structure of the hollow-strut SiC foam was characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray micro computed tomography. Since the reactor’s structure plays a key role in fluid mixing and mass diffusion during the extraction process, the structure-performance relationship of the foam was studied by extraction experiments combined with numerical simulations. Using the foam with the optimal structure, the influence of the flow rate Q₀ of the two liquid phases on the extraction efficiency η and overall volume mass transfer coefficient K_La was discussed. For both RE ions, with increasing Q₀, η decreases while K_La increases. For the total flow rate of the two phases of 4 ml·min^-1, the η values of Pr³⁺ and Ce³⁺ reached 98.7% and 97.0%, respectively. For the total flow rate of 36 ml·min^-1 which was much higher than that of many other microchannel reactors reported in the literatures, the η values of Pr³⁺ and Ce³⁺ still reached 92.2% and 86.9%, respectively, and the K_La values of Pr³⁺ and Ce³⁺ were 0.198 and 0.161 s^-1, respectively, similar to the high values reported for other microchannel reactors studied in previous work. These findings indicate that the hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor is suitable for use in REs extraction.

Key words: Extraction, Hollow, Foam, Microchannels, Numerical simulation

Ye Zhang, Yong Gao, Peng Wang, Duo Na, Zhenming Yang, Jinsong Zhang. Solvent extraction with a three-dimensional reticulated hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor[J]. 中国化学工程学报, 2022, 46(6): 53-62.

Ye Zhang, Yong Gao, Peng Wang, Duo Na, Zhenming Yang, Jinsong Zhang. Solvent extraction with a three-dimensional reticulated hollow-strut SiC foam microchannel reactor[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2022, 46(6): 53-62.

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