Recovery of Heavy Metal Using Solvent Impregnated Resin (SIR) Coupled with Donnan Dialysis

Dalila Berdous, Djamel Eddine Akretche

Laboratory of Hydrometallurgy and Inorganic Molecular Chemistry, Faculty of chemistry, USTHB, BP 32, El- Alia , 16111 Bab Ezzouar, Algiers, Algeria.

DOI: 10.4236/msa.2012.310103                

Abstract

A membrane process for metal recovery from aqueous solutions was studied. Metal ions diffused from the feed compartment to the stripping compartment through an hybrid Donnan dialysis which consists to combine two ion exchange membranes with solvent impregnated resin (SIR). The aim of this work is to study the recovery of Pb(II), Ag(I) and Cu(II) from nitrate solutions by using SIR combined with classical Donnan dialysis. The resin has been prepared by impregnating the Amberlite XAD-4 using three different extractants namely: di-2-ethyl hexyl phosphine acide (D₂EHPA), tris-octyl phosphine oxide (TOPO) and Diphenylthiourea (DPT). Experiments were performed as a function of nature of the extractant impregnated on the XAD-4 resin as well as the concentration in the resin phase, the stripping pH, the concentration ratio of metal ions in the feed compartment and the nature of the counter ions in strip compartment. The results show that the D2EHPA is the better extractant for the metal ions used in this work, and it’s shown a good selectivity for the separation between ions.

Keywords

Donnan Dialysis; Hybrid Process; Amberlite Xad-4; Solvent Impregnated Resin; D2ehpa; Topo; Dipehenylthiourea

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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