Method of recovering vanadium from vanadium-containing materials with at least 6 wt % oxidic vanadium compounds

US4748009A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GfE Gesellschaft fur Elektrometallurgie mbH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhard Hahn · Vilsheim, DE
• Siegfried Sattelberger · Nuremberg, DE
• Rudolf Fichte · Nuremberg, DE
• Hans-Joachim Retelsdorf · Zirndorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 2, 1986
• Grant date: May 31, 1988
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P10/20
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Process for the recovery of vanadium from vanadium-containing source materials under the addition of additives, especially alkali metal compounds, particularly the carbonates, chlorides, sulfates as well as nitrates and/or mixtures of these compounds, whereby the source material is ground and roasted. The roasted material is leached and whereby the withdrawn leach solution is hydrometallurgically treated for the recovery of vanadium compounds. The source materials are first roasted without the addition of alkali additives and subsequently are leached in a first leaching step. To the residues of the first leaching step are added alkali additives and the mixture is roasted in a second roasting step. The roasting products are again leached.