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Title: Recovery of yttrium from cathode ray tubes and lamps’ fluorescent powders: experimental results and economic simulation

Abstract

Highlights: • Fluorescent powder of lamps. • Fluorescent powder of cathode ray rubes. • Recovery of yttrium from fluorescent powders. • Economic simulation for the processes to recover yttrium from WEEE. - Abstract: In this paper, yttrium recovery from fluorescent powder of lamps and cathode ray tubes (CRTs) is described. The process for treating these materials includes the following: (a) acid leaching, (b) purification of the leach liquors using sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, (c) precipitation of yttrium using oxalic acid, and (d) calcinations of oxalates for production of yttrium oxides. Experimental results have shown that process conditions necessary to purify the solutions and recover yttrium strongly depend on composition of the leach liquor, in other words, whether the powder comes from treatment of CRTs or lamp. In the optimal experimental conditions, the recoveries of yttrium oxide are about 95%, 55%, and 65% for CRT, lamps, and CRT/lamp mixture (called MIX) powders, respectively. The lower yields obtained during treatments of MIX and lamp powders are probably due to the co-precipitation of yttrium together with other metals contained in the lamps powder only. Yttrium loss can be reduced to minimum changing the experimental conditions with respect to the case of themore » CRT process. In any case, the purity of final products from CRT, lamps, and MIX is greater than 95%. Moreover, the possibility to treat simultaneously both CRT and lamp powders is very important and interesting from an industrial point of view since it could be possible to run a single plant treating fluorescent powder coming from two different electronic wastes.« less

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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22304578
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Waste Management
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 33; Journal Issue: 11; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0956-053X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; CALCINATION; COPRECIPITATION; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; LEACHING; MATERIALS RECOVERY; OXALIC ACID; SIMULATION; SODIUM HYDROXIDES; SODIUM SULFIDES; SOLUTIONS; YTTRIUM OXIDES

Citation Formats

Innocenzi, V., E-mail: valentina.innocenzi1@univaq.it, De Michelis, I., Ferella, F., and Vegliò, F. Recovery of yttrium from cathode ray tubes and lamps’ fluorescent powders: experimental results and economic simulation. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.1016/J.WASMAN.2013.06.002.
Innocenzi, V., E-mail: valentina.innocenzi1@univaq.it, De Michelis, I., Ferella, F., & Vegliò, F. Recovery of yttrium from cathode ray tubes and lamps’ fluorescent powders: experimental results and economic simulation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WASMAN.2013.06.002
Innocenzi, V., E-mail: valentina.innocenzi1@univaq.it, De Michelis, I., Ferella, F., and Vegliò, F. 2013. "Recovery of yttrium from cathode ray tubes and lamps’ fluorescent powders: experimental results and economic simulation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WASMAN.2013.06.002.
@article{osti_22304578,
title = {Recovery of yttrium from cathode ray tubes and lamps’ fluorescent powders: experimental results and economic simulation},
author = {Innocenzi, V., E-mail: valentina.innocenzi1@univaq.it and De Michelis, I. and Ferella, F. and Vegliò, F.},
abstractNote = {Highlights: • Fluorescent powder of lamps. • Fluorescent powder of cathode ray rubes. • Recovery of yttrium from fluorescent powders. • Economic simulation for the processes to recover yttrium from WEEE. - Abstract: In this paper, yttrium recovery from fluorescent powder of lamps and cathode ray tubes (CRTs) is described. The process for treating these materials includes the following: (a) acid leaching, (b) purification of the leach liquors using sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, (c) precipitation of yttrium using oxalic acid, and (d) calcinations of oxalates for production of yttrium oxides. Experimental results have shown that process conditions necessary to purify the solutions and recover yttrium strongly depend on composition of the leach liquor, in other words, whether the powder comes from treatment of CRTs or lamp. In the optimal experimental conditions, the recoveries of yttrium oxide are about 95%, 55%, and 65% for CRT, lamps, and CRT/lamp mixture (called MIX) powders, respectively. The lower yields obtained during treatments of MIX and lamp powders are probably due to the co-precipitation of yttrium together with other metals contained in the lamps powder only. Yttrium loss can be reduced to minimum changing the experimental conditions with respect to the case of the CRT process. In any case, the purity of final products from CRT, lamps, and MIX is greater than 95%. Moreover, the possibility to treat simultaneously both CRT and lamp powders is very important and interesting from an industrial point of view since it could be possible to run a single plant treating fluorescent powder coming from two different electronic wastes.},
doi = {10.1016/J.WASMAN.2013.06.002},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22304578}, journal = {Waste Management},
issn = {0956-053X},
number = 11,
volume = 33,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2013},
month = {Fri Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2013}
}