Alkali metal catalyst recovery system
US4057512A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 29, 1975 |
| Grant date | Nov 8, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 29, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P20/584
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
In a coal gasification operation or similar process carried out in the presence of an alkali metal-containing catalyst wherein spent solids containing ash and alkali metal catalyst residues are produced, alkali metal constituents are recovered from the spent solids by first removing magnetic constituents from the solids, contacting the solid particles from which magnetic constituents have been separated with an acid solution to extract alkali metal constituents from the solids and produce a spent acid solution enriched in alkali metal salts, raising the pH of the enriched solution sufficiently to precipitate aluminum from the solution as aluminum hydroxide, heating the remaining solution to precipitate silicon compounds, and recovering an enriched alkali metal solution from which aluminum and silicon compounds have been removed. This process permits the effective recovery of alkali metal catalyst constituents, eliminates iron compounds and other inactive constituents which may otherwise tend to build up in the catalyst system, and makes possible the recovery of aluminum as a valuable by-product of the process.
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