Resources Recycling (자원리싸이클링)

The Korean Institute of Resources Recycling (한국자원리싸이클링학회)
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Chemical Leaching of Silver from Diverse Resources

다양한 자원으로부터 은의 화학적 침출

  • Xing, Weidong (Department of Advanced Material Science and Engineering, Institute of Rare Metal, Mokpo National University) ;
  • Lee, Manseung (Department of Advanced Material Science and Engineering, Institute of Rare Metal, Mokpo National University)
  • 행위동 (목포대학교 공과대학 신소재공학과) ;
  • 이만승 (목포대학교 공과대학 신소재공학과)
  • Received : 2016.11.28
  • Accepted : 2017.01.06
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

The special properties of silver are often indispensable in the manufacture of advanced materials. Therefore, it is of importance to develop a process to recover silver which is necessary for the production of advanced materials from diverse resources. In this manuscript, the developed processes for the leaching of silver from diverse resources are reviewed. For this purpose, the advantages and disadvantages of using some inorganic acids (nitric and sulfuric acid) and their mixture with other oxidizing agents (ozone, oxygen, hydrogen peroxide and ferric ion) were investigated. Moreover, the leaching of silver with thiourea and thiosulfate was compared over those by inorganic acids in terms of environmental effect.

은은 특수한 물성을 지니고 있으며 첨단소재용 원료로 사용된다. 따라서 첨단소재를 제조하는데 필요한 고순도 은을 다양한 자원으로부터 회수하는 공정을 개발하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 여러 자원으로부터 은의 침출을 위해 개발된 공정을 조사하였다. 무기산(질산과 황산)과 무기산 및 산화제(오존, 산소, 과산화수소, 3가 철이온)의 혼합용액에 의한 은의 침출공정의 장단점을 비교하였다. 또한 thiourea와 thiosulfate에 의한 은의 침출과 무기산에 의한 침출에 대해 환경에 미치는 영향을 중심으로 비교하였다.

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