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Title: Ultra-low concentration terbium (Tb) adsorption on garlic peels biosorbent and its application for $$\mathrm{Nd}$$-$$\mathrm{Fe}$$-$$\mathrm{B}$$ scraps recovery

Journal Article · · Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Online)
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  1. Nanchang University (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ganzhou (China)
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ganzhou (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ganzhou (China)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  5. University of Science and Technology Beijing (China)
  6. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  7. Hangzhou Yanqu Information Technology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou (China)

Motivated by the strategic value of middle-heavy rare earth elements (MHREEs), we proposed a bio-adsorption method to recover ultra-low concentration terbium (Tb(Ⅲ)) from industrial wastewater that originated from the Nd-Fe-B scraps recovery process. It could be found that Tb(Ⅲ) ions as low as 5.34 ng·mL-1(ppb) could be adsorbed onto Ca(Ⅱ)-modified garlic peels (Ca-GP) within 10 min with the adsorption efficiency of 99.2% at pH 3.5. The adsorption behavior of Tb(Ⅲ) onto Ca-GP conformed the Langmuir isotherm model and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Attenuated total reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and density-functional theory (DFT) calculations results showed that Tb(Ⅲ) ions could be ion-exchanged with cations in Ca-GP such as Ca(Ⅱ) and -COOH. In application, column experiment results showed that the maximum bed adsorption capacity for Tb, praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), dysprosium (Dy), and Total rare earth elements (REEs) ions calculated by the Thomas model was 0.06, 3.50, 9.65, 7.34, and 27.37 µg·g-1, respectively, with the initial concentration of 0.37 ng·mL-1 Tb, 20 ng·mL-1 Pr, 44 ng·mL-1 Nd, 67 ng·mL-1 Dy and 170 ng·mL-1 total REEs ions of actual solutions (below the solubility of rare-earth hydroxide). Here this manuscript thus provided a novel cost-effective and efficient approach to the enrichment and recovery of MHREEs from ultra-low concentration REEs ions-containing solutions.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Chinese Academy of Sciences
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830; 2022YFB3504305; 51974285; ZDRW-CN-2021-3
OSTI ID:
2229855
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-181750
Journal Information:
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Online), Vol. 11, Issue 3; ISSN 2213-3437
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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