Pressure-Leaching Behavior of Nickel from Ni–Mo Ore in Aqueous Oxygenated Media

Deng Zhigan; Bai Jiuyuan; Wei Chang; Fan Gang; LI Xingbin; Li Minting; LI Cunxiong

doi:10.1515/ijcre-2017-0209

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Pressure-Leaching Behavior of Nickel from Ni–Mo Ore in Aqueous Oxygenated Media

Deng Zhigan , Bai Jiuyuan , Wei Chang , Fan Gang , LI Xingbin , Li Minting and LI Cunxiong

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From the journal International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering Volume 16 Issue 12

Abstract

Ni–Mo ore is a multi-metal complex and unique mineral resource that exists as a black shale. This ore contains more than 4 wt% Mo and at least 2 wt% Ni. Economic value is associated with deriving products from Ni–Mo ore that contains amorphous colloidal sulfides and that is highly active. Under low-temperature hydrothermal conditions (water at 120 °C or more) and in excess oxygen, amorphous sulfides are oxidized easily to metal-sulfate forms, which leads to nickel and molybdenum dissolution. In this study, the effects of agitation speed, temperature, oxygen partial pressure and particle size on the rate of nickel leaching were investigated. The leaching rate was nearly independent of agitation speed above 400 rpm and increased with a decrease in particle size. A temperature increase to 150 °C contributed significantly to the nickel leaching rate. Oxygen pressure influences nickel leaching, with an oxygen pressure of between 0.5 MPa and 0.7 MPa providing the greatest effect. The pressure-leaching behavior of nickel was fitted to a shrinking-core kinetic model. The mathematical analyses indicates that the dissolution process is chemical-reaction controlled during early dissolution, with an activation energy of 42.68 kJ/mol, and the reaction order with respect to the oxygen partial pressure was 0.79. Up to nearly 70 % nickel was dissolved into solution, and product layers of molybdenum and iron oxide were formed on the surface of the Ni–Mo ore particles, which prevented further nickel dissolution. Thereafter, nickel leaching was controlled by liquid-film diffusion, with an activation energy of 11.01 kJ/mol.

Keywords: Ni–Mo ore; nickel; aqueous oxygenated media; pressure leaching; kinetics

Acknowledgements

This work was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51804146, 51564030, 51664030, 51474115); the Yunnan Province Applied Foundation Research Programs, China (No. 2014FB126) and the Analysis and Testing Center of Kunming University of Science and Technology in China (No. 2016T20090030, 2017P20161102010).

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Received: 2017-11-01

Revised: 2018-05-16

Accepted: 2018-09-22

Published Online: 2018-10-05

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