US20210197266A1 - Method for producing nickel powder - Google Patents

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US20210197266A1
US20210197266A1 US16/080,363 US201716080363A US2021197266A1 US 20210197266 A1 US20210197266 A1 US 20210197266A1 US 201716080363 A US201716080363 A US 201716080363A US 2021197266 A1 US2021197266 A1 US 2021197266A1
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Shin-ichi Heguri
Yoshitomo Ozaki
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  • the present invention relates to a method for controlling scaling in a reaction vessel in a method for producing nickel powder from a solution containing a nickel ammine sulfate complex.
  • the present invention can be applied to a treatment of an in-process intermediate solution generated from a nickel hydrometallurgical process.
  • Methods for producing fine nickel powder have been known including atomization methods of dispersing molten nickel in gas or water to obtain fine powder, and dry processes, such as CVD processes, of volatilizing nickel, and reducing the nickel in a gaseous phase to obtain nickel powder as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2005-505695.
  • Methods for producing nickel powder by a wet process include a method of producing nickel powder using a reducing agent as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2010-242143, and an atomization thermal decomposition method of atomizing a nickel solution in a reduction atmosphere at a high temperature to obtain a nickel powder through a thermal decomposition reaction as described in Japanese Patent No. 4286220.
  • This method involves the following process: a small amount of fine particles called seed crystals is added, and a reducing agent is fed thereto to grow the seed crystals into a powder having a predetermined particle size.
  • a reducing agent is fed thereto to grow the seed crystals into a powder having a predetermined particle size.
  • the so-called scaling which is part of nickel precipitated on the walls of the reaction container in the apparatus rather than on the seed crystals, may be formed in the reaction vessel, causing failure such as clogging of the pipes.
  • the present invention provides a method for controlling the generation of scaling in a reaction vessel to reduce time and cost required for removal of the scaling in the process of producing nickel powder from a solution containing a nickel ammine sulfate complex.
  • a first aspect of the present invention to solve the above problem is a method for producing nickel powder, including: adding, to a solution containing a nickel ammine sulfate complex, seed crystals having a particle size of 1 to 20 ⁇ m in an amount of 0.3 times or more and 3 times or less the weight of nickel in the solution to form a slurry; charging the slurry into a reaction vessel, maintaining a liquid phase portion occupied by the slurry and a gaseous phase portion other than the liquid phase portion within the reaction vessel; blowing hydrogen gas into the slurry to reduce a nickel complex ion and to thereby produce and recover nickel powder in which a nickel precipitate is formed on a surface of the seed crystals; and performing hydrogen reduction by adding the solution containing the nickel ammine sulfate complex to the recovered nickel powder in which the nickel precipitate is formed on the surface of the seed crystals and blowing hydrogen gas into the nickel powder to precipitate nickel on the nickel precipitate and to thereby produce grown nickel powder.
  • a second aspect of the present invention is a method for producing nickel powder, wherein of a polyacrylate salt dispersant is added to the slurry according to the first aspect in an amount of 0.5 to 5% based on the weight of the seed crystals added to the slurry.
  • a third aspect of the present invention is a method for producing nickel powder, wherein the hydrogen reduction according to the first and second aspect is to precipitate nickel on the nickel precipitate and to thereby obtain further grown nickel powder.
  • a fourth aspect of the present invention is a method for producing nickel powder, wherein the temperature of the slurry is 150 to 200° C. when hydrogen gas is blown into the slurry according to the first to third aspects.
  • a fifth aspect of the present invention is a method for producing nickel powder, wherein the pressure of the gaseous phase portion in the reaction vessel is in the range of 1.0 to 4.0 MPa when hydrogen gas is blown into the slurry according to the first to fourth aspects.
  • the seed crystals according to the first to fifth aspects are nickel powder having the particle size of 1 to 20 ⁇ m.
  • the present invention can control the generation of scaling. For this reason, the frequency of removal of scale can be reduced, resulting in a reduction in time and cost.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a relation between the amount of nickel powder to be added, the number of repetitions, and the amount of scaling generated.
  • the present invention is a method for producing nickel powder by adding seed crystals to a nickel ammine sulfate complex solution, and blowing hydrogen gas thereinto to produce a nickel powder.
  • a nickel ammine sulfate complex solution that can be used in the present invention is not particularly limited, but it is suitable to use a nickel ammine sulfate complex solution obtained by dissolving a nickel-containing material, such as an industrial intermediate including one or a mixture of two or more selected from nickel and cobalt mixed sulfide, crude nickel sulfate, nickel oxide, nickel hydroxide, nickel carbonate, and nickel powder, with sulfuric acid or ammonia to prepare a nickel-containing leachate (solution containing nickel), subjecting the nickel-containing leachate to a liquid-purification step such as solvent extraction, ion exchange, or neutralization to remove impurity elements in the solution, and adding ammonia to the resulting solution.
  • a nickel-containing material such as an industrial intermediate including one or a mixture of two or more selected from nickel and cobalt mixed sulfide, crude nickel sulfate, nickel oxide, nickel hydroxide, nickel carbonate, and nickel powder
  • sulfuric acid or ammonia to prepare
  • seed crystals are added to the nickel ammine sulfate complex solution to prepare a slurry.
  • the seed crystals added here are preferably a powder having a particle size of 20 ⁇ m or less.
  • a nickel powder is suitable as a substance which does not contaminate the final nickel precipitate.
  • the nickel powder used as the seed crystals can be prepared, for example, by adding a reducing agent such as hydrazine to the nickel ammine sulfate complex solution.
  • the weight of the seed crystals added here is preferably 0.3 times or more and 3 times or less the weight of nickel in the solution. An amount of less than 0.3 times the weight of nickel in the solution cannot achieve a sufficient effect of reducing scaling. An amount of more than 3 times has no influences over the effect; rather, this results in addition of excess crystal seeds.
  • a dispersant may be added to disperse the seed crystals in the slurry.
  • a dispersant used here is not particularly limited as long as it has polyacrylate salt, but sodium polyacrylate, which is industrially available at low cost, is preferable.
  • the amount of the dispersant to be added is preferably 0.5 to 5% based on the weight of the seed crystals. An amount of less than 0.5% cannot achieve the dispersion effect. An amount of more than 5% has no influences over the dispersion effect; rather, this results in addition of an excess dispersant.
  • the slurry prepared by the addition of the seed crystals or the seed crystals and the dispersant is charged into a reaction vessel in a container resistant to high pressure and high temperature, forming a liquid phase portion occupied by the slurry and a gaseous phase portion in the reaction vessel. Subsequently, hydrogen gas is blown into the slurry in the reaction vessel to reduce a nickel complex ion in the solution and precipitate nickel on the seed crystals added.
  • the reaction temperature is preferably in the range of 150 to 200° C.
  • a reaction temperature of less than 150° C. reduces the efficiency of reduction.
  • a reaction temperature of more than 200° C. has no influences over the reaction; rather, such a reaction temperature increases loss of thermal energy, and is not suitable.
  • the pressure of the gaseous phase portion in the reaction vessel during the reaction is preferably 1.0 to 4.0 MPa. If the pressure is less than 1.0 MPa, reaction efficiency will be reduced, and even if the pressure exceeds 4.0 MPa, there will be no influence on the reaction, and the loss of hydrogen gas will increase.
  • a precipitate of nickel is formed on the seed crystals through the reduction and the precipitation treatment under such conditions so that nickel can be extracted and recovered from the solution in the form of a fine powdery precipitate by the effect of the dispersant.
  • the nickel powder thus produced can be used in, for example, an application to nickel pastes as an inner constitutional substance for stacked ceramic capacitors. Besides, particles of the nickel powder can be grown through repetition of the above hydrogen reduction to produce high purity nickel metal.
  • the resulting slurry was then charged into an internal cylindrical can of an autoclave used as a reaction vessel to define a liquid phase portion and a gaseous phase portion.
  • the slurry was heated to and held at 185° C. with stirring.
  • hydrogen gas was blown and fed into the slurry so that the pressure of the gaseous phase portion in the internal cylindrical can of the autoclave became 3.5 MPa, to perform a reduction treatment. Thereby, a reduced slurry was generated.
  • the feed of hydrogen gas was stopped, and the internal cylindrical can was cooled.
  • the reduced slurry in the internal cylindrical can was filtered to recover nickel powder.
  • a nickel sulfate solution containing nickel equivalent to 75 g, a solution containing 330 g of ammonium sulfate, and 191 ml of 25% aqueous ammonia were added and the total amount of the solution was adjusted to 1000 ml to prepare an adjusted slurry.
  • the adjusted slurry was reacted in the autoclave in the same manner as described above, and a thus recovered nickel precipitate was again reacted in the manner described above. This operation was repeated to grow nickel powder.
  • the reduced slurry in the internal cylindrical can was extracted, and was dried.
  • the weight of the internal cylindrical can was measured to measure a change in weight before and after the reaction.
  • the change in weight is small according to “the number of repetitions” and the generation of scaling can be reduced.
  • a nickel powder was grown under the same condition as in Example 1 except that the nickel powder as seed crystals was added in an amount of 3.0 times the weight of nickel in the mixed solution, i.e., 225 g.
  • Example 2 The results similar to those in Example 1 were obtained. Even if the number of repetitions was increased, the weight of scaling generated was 20 g or less each time.
  • the growth was repeatedly performed in the same manner as in Example 1 except that initially 15.0 g of 1 ⁇ m nickel powder (proportion of addition: 20%) and 0.3 g of sodium polyacrylate (42% solution) were added.
  • Example 2 The growth was repeatedly performed in the same manner as in Example 1 except that initially 7.5 g of 1 ⁇ m nickel powder (proportion of addition: 10%) and 0.1 g of sodium polyacrylate (42% solution) were added.

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