GB2183623A - Hydrometallurgic process for recovering in the metal form the lead contained in the paste of exhausted batteries - Google Patents
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Abstract
The desulphurized paste is leached with an acid suitable for the subsequent electrowinning, with an amount of hydrogen peroxide necessary to reduce all of the existing PbO2 being added. A high extraction yield is obtained, without foreign salts being added to the electrolyte, which is then submitted to an electrolysis step, to recover Pb as cathodes. <IMAGE>
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Hydrometallurgic process for recovering in the metal form the lead contained in the paste of the exhausted batteries
According to the various methods of desulphurization of the paste, by treating the sludge of the exhausted batteries with solutions of carbonate of alkali metals or of ammonium, a solution is obtained, into which practically all of the sulphur passes in the form of soluble sulphate (of alkali metal or of ammonium), as well as a mixture of insoluble lead compounds which, after having been separated from the solution, and thoroughly washed with water, is practically free from sulphur.
Such a mixture can be easily reduced with coal at a relatively low temperature (800-900 C), without substantial emissions of sulphur dioxide, and without the production of lead mattes.
The pyrometallurgic reduction of this product is thus the presently most used method, also because of the advantages of the high productivity and of the long life of the reduction ovens and of the high yields of lead extraction.
The pyrometallurgical processings of the lead-containing materials involve however particular precautions in the carriage and in the charging of the furnaces, and the possibility of emission, by the same furnaces, of fumes and volatile dusts.
From here the need arises for the refiner to have available large filtering plants, and a wide and expensive system for the monitoring, as to the pollutant lead, of the working premises and of the surroundings of the factories. For this reason, very important are the processes for the recovery of lead of the paste in the metal form, which may constitute a valuable alternative to the pyrometallurgical processings, such as, above all, those processes which operate according to a completely hydrometallurgical route, such as the extraction processes by electrolytic way, or electrowinning.
The desulphurized paste has on the average the following composition:
Lead carbonate (PbCO3) 50-52%
Lead sulphate (PbSO4) 2.5- 4%
Lead peroxide (PbO2) 14-16%
Lead oxide (PbO) 11-12% Metal lead (Pb) 5- 7%
It is known that the practical problem of the hydrometallurgical processing of the paste of the old batteries is that of rendering soluble in the solution selected for the electrolysis all of the components of the mixture, in paticular PbO2, which is contained in it in large percentages. In fact, the residual of the acidic solubilization of the mixture must not constitute an intolerable loss of lead.
On the other hand, owing to the well-known insolubility of PbO2 in the normal acids suitable to the electrolytic process, without a preliminary treatment for PbO2 reduction, the residue of the acidic solubilization of the mixture is very rich in lead, and must be sent back to the pyrometallurgical recovery.
In accordance with the prior art, the solubilization of all of the components of the paste in the various electrolytes has been accomplished by various ways.
In chronological order, the following patents may be cited:
-C.E. Tucker in U.S.Pat. 1,148,062 suggests a heating of the battery sludge, to convert PbO2 into soluble PbO and Pb20.
-W.C. Smith in U.S.Pat. 1,752,356, to solubilize PbO2 in view of the treatment with caustic alkali, submits the paste to a heating in a reducing environment (PbO is formed).
-J.H. Calbeck in U.S.Pat. 1911,604 carries out the leaching of the battery paste by a sodium acetate solution. Lead oxide and sulphate are dissolved, whilst PbO2 is normally insoluble in that electrolyte.
But, in the presence of metal Pb and in the said electrolyte, a local couple is established, so that PbO2 and an equivalent amount of metal lead are dissolved.
-A. F. Gaumann in U.S. Pat. 4,107,007 leaches the paste with a concentrated solution of alkali metal hydroxide, to which molasses,or raw sugar, or the like, has been added.
In such a way, Pb oxide and sulphate are dissolved, and fed to the electrolysis. The behaviour of PbO2 is not detailed.
-R.D. Prengaman in U.S.Pat. 4,229,271 proposes two methods of eliminating PbO2 from the paste, and rendering it wholly soluble in the customary acids for the electrowinning process:
a) a drying at 100 C of the paste, followed by a roasting under a reducing atmosphere at temperatures comprised within the range of from 290 to 325 C; b) a treatment of the aqueous suspension of the paste with sulphur dioxide, or with sulphite or bisulphite of alkali metal or of ammonium.
- U.Ducati in U.S.Pat. 4,460,442 reacts the paste of the battery, at 100-1 20 C, in the presence of a strongly alkaline solution, to obtain a red lead precipitate, which has the property of completely dissolving in the hot concentrated solutions of fluoboric acid or of fluosilicic acid.
-A.Y. Lee and E.R. Cole of Bureau of Mines suggest in R.I. 8857 two ways for reducing the PbO2 contained in the paste:
a) by the addition of Pb powder during the leaching with fluosilicic acid of the paste already desulphurized with ammonium carbonate;
b) by the addition of ammonium bisulphite during the treatment of desuiphurization with ammonium carbonate.
The suggested methods of thermal reduction of PbO2 under a reducing atmosphere have the disadvantage of adding two steps to the working cycle: the drying and the reducing roasting. These operation steps require a strict control of the operating conditions, and they must be furthermore carried out on a unit (furnace or roaster) euipped with an adequate dust exhauster. Moreover, even if the temperatures are low, moving dry material is pollution-causing.
The method of reduction during the high-temperature dissolving, by means of the addition of lead powder,
involves the transfer of a portion of produced lead, to convert it into powder; as a consequence, this is an expensive method.
The method of reduction with sulphur dioxide, sulphite or bisulphite before the carbonating involves a certain cost, due to the reactant, but, what's more important, it causes the consumption of carbonate for the desulphurizing to increase by about 25%; the corresponding expense is not negligible; to date, the expense for the carbonate is the highest item of individual expenditure of the whole process.
Purpose of the present invention is to solve the above reminded problems concerning the processes of
hydrometallurgical treatment by electrowinning of the desulphurized paste of the exhausted batteries.
For such a purpose to be accomplished, the invention proposes a hydrometallurgical process for recovering, by extraction by electrolytic way, in pure metal form, the lead of the paste, or desulphurized paste, of the exhausted batteries, characterized in that it comprises the steps of:
a) leaching said paste with an aqueous solution of an acid selected from those suitable to the electrolytic extraction;
b) treating with hydrogen peroxide the leached paste as of (a), with the concomitant carrying out of the following reactions: (1) Pb4+ + H202 < Pb2+ + 02+ 2H+
(2) Pb + Pb4+ < 2Pb2+ up to the quantitative reduction of all of the lead dioxide contained in the said paste,
c) separation of the solid residue from the so-obtained dissolved lead-containing solution, which can be directly sent to the electrolytic lead extraction.
The process of the invention, as substantially defined above, is described in greater detail.
The starting material of the process is the paste already separated from the other components of the exhausted batteries, and which has already undergone the desulphurizing process in accordance with the known art.
This material is leached with the aqueous solution of an acid suitable to the subsequent electrolytic extraction (preferably, either fluoboric or fluosilicic acid), to which such an amount of hydrogen peroxide is added, as to obtain the greatest solubilization of all of the lead compounds present, and, more specifically, of PbO2 and of metal Pb.
During the acidic treatment of the desulphurized paste, the hydrogen peroxide causes the reaction: Pb4+ + H202 Pb2+ Pb2+ + 2+2H+ (1) so that all of the PbO2 is reduced to PbO and dissolved by the present acid.
The considerable amount of O2 which is liberated during reaction (1) physically activates the particles of metal
Pb present in the paste, so that the reaction:
Pb + Pb4+ - > 2Pb2+ (2)
occurs more easily, and all of the metal Pb having the right granulometry is dissolved, allowing also the hydrogen peroxide, corresponding to the Pb4+ which is reduced, to be saved.
After the acidic leaching with the addition of hydrogen peroxide, of the desulphurized paste only the organic substances (thin scraps of separators and ebonite, fibres and so forth), and Pb sulphate not converted in the desulphurizing step remain undissolved.
The reacted liquid/solid mixture is separated by filtration. The solid residue from the filtration contains not more than 5% of the lead present in the starting material and, after a roasting to destroy the organic substances, it can be returned to the desulphurizing step.
The filtered solution contains all of the Pb in ionic form and does not normally require any purifications, because it is the same Pb powder, physically activated by the oxygen being evolved in reaction (1), which carries out the displacement action (also named as "cementation") of the impurities, small amounts of which may have been dissolved during the acidic leaching.
The self-purified solution can be then directly fed to the electrolytic extraction of lead, which is carried out in customary cells with insoluble graphite anodes and with cathodes made from thin lead sheets.
By operating under suitable conditions, a cathodic deposit of excellent quality and purity can be obtained, the deposition of PbO2 at the anode being prevented to the highest extent.
The small amounts of PbO2, which are sometimes unavoidably formed, must be returned to the step of acidic leaching with hydrogen peroxide. The cathodes, smelted into pigs, are marketed as electrolytic lead. The solution coming off the electrolysis returns back to the acidic leaching of the paste.
To the purpose of better understanding the characteristics and the advantages of the invention, a non limitative example of practical embodiment thereof is described in the following.
Example
An amount of 980 g of well washed desulphurized paste, containing, as referred to the dry matter: Pb, 70.5%;
Sb, 0.68%; S, 0.18%; has been leached with 5 e of exhausted electrolyte from the electrowinning, containing:
49 g/t of Pb++
139 g/t of free H B F4 After a half an hour stirring at 50 C, hydrogen peroxide (in the form of a solution at 35%) has been added in the amount of 4.6% of the processed paste, and has been allowed to react over a further half an hour.
By filtration, the following substances have been separated:
80 g of insoluble residue having the composition:
Pb 34.2%
SB 2.4%
S 2.2%
5 e of lead-carrying electrolyte, containing;
181.5 9/e of Pbb++
0.6 g/E of Sb+++
25.1 g/ of free HBF4 The leaching with fluoboric acid and hydrogen peroxide has extracted 96.01% of the total Pb contained in the paste. All of the sulphur has remained in the residue.
By submitting the 5 litres of lead-carrying electrolyte to electrowinning on a cell with graphite anodes
(previously lined with PbO2) and cathodes of thin sheet of electrolytic lead, 630 g of cathodic lead, as well as 9 9 of PbO2 at the anode, have been produced.
The cell has been operating over 24 hrs at 7 A and 2.5 V.
The cathodic current density has been of 280 A/m2.
The current efficiency has been of 97%.
The smelted cathodic lead had the following composition:
Sb < 0.001;
As < 0.001;
Sn < 0.001;
Bi < 0.002;
Cu = 0.0003;
Ag < 0.0005.
The exhausted electrolyte, to be returned back to the leaching of new paste, contained:
53 g/t of Pb++;
131 glf of free HBF4.
In the attached drawing, a block diagram is reported, to exemplifying purposes, of the process of the invention.
In general, it can be observed that according to the invention the use of hydrogen peroxide offers the following advantages, as compared with the other reducing agents as proposed by the known art for the reduction of PbO2: ~It does not show any toxicity.
~It does not supply foreign ions to the solution which has to be sent to the electrolysis, and which must be continuously recycled.
~It is a reactant easily available from the market, at a not too high price.
~it can be metered with precision, avoiding the wastes, because the end of PbO2 reduction is signalled by a sharp turning of the colour of the suspension from a brown-red to a brown-grey colour. The change in colour can be easily detected visually.
~With a consumption of 4-5% of H202 (as a solution at 35%), an yield not lower than 95% is reached in the extraction of Pb.
Claims (6)
1. Hydrometallurgical process for recovering, by extraction by electrolytic way, in pure metal form, the lead of the paste, or desulphurized paste, of the exhausted batteries, characterized in that it comprises the steps of:
a) leaching said paste with an aqueous solution of an acid selected from those suitable to the electrolytic extraction;
b) treating with hydrogen peroxide the leached paste as of (a), with the concomitant carrying out of the following reactions: (1) Pb4+ + H202 < Pb2+ + O2 + 2H+ (2) Pb + Pb4+ < 2Pb2+
up to the quantitative reduction of all of the lead dioxide contained in the said paste,
c) separation of the solid residue from the so-obtained dissolved lead-containing solution, which can be directly sent to the electrolytic lead extraction.
2. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that said reaction (2) as of step (b) is activated by the oxygen which is developed in said reaction (1) as of step (b).
3. Process according to claim 2, characterized in that together with the said reactions (1) and (2), a cementation action occurs of the existing impurities, carried out by said metal Pb physically activated by the O2 which is evolved in said reaction (1).
4. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that it additionally comprises the following steps:
d) treatment of said dissolved lead-containing solution as of (c), by extraction by electrolytic way, with the formation of cathodes of metal Pb;
e) recycling of the exhausted electrolyte obtained in said step (d) back to said leaching step (a).
5. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that said acid as of (a) is either fluoboric acid or fluosilicic acid.
6. A process substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the Example, and as shown in the accompanying drawing.
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