| Journal: | Brazilian journal of chemical engineering |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000308959 |
| ISSN: | 0104-6632 |
| Authors: | Andrade Lima, L.R.P. de1 |
| Institutions: | 1McGill University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Montreal, Quebec. Canadá |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Season: | Sep |
| Volumen: | 21 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 435-447 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Experimental, aplicado |
| English abstract | Leaching occurs in metals recovery, in contaminated soil washing, and in many natural processes, such as fertilizer dissolution and rock weathering. This paper presents a model developed to simulate the transient evolution of the dissolved chemical species in the heap and column isothermal leaching processes. In this model, the solid bed is numerically divided into plane layers; the recovery of the chemical species, the enrichment of the pregnant leach solution, and the residual concentration of the leaching agent are calculated by interactions among the layers. The solution flow in the solid bed is assumed as unidirectional without dispersion, and the solid-fluid reaction is described by a diffusive control model that is integrated analytically for each time step. The data set used in the model include physical-chemical, geometrical, and operational variables, such as: leachable chemical species content, leaching agent flow rate and concentration, particles size distribution, solution residence time in the solid bed, and solid bed length, weight and irrigated area. The results for two case studies, namely, an industrial gold heap leaching and a pilot column copper acid leaching, showed that the model successful predict the general features of the process time evolution |
| Disciplines: | Química, Ingeniería |
| Keyword: | Ingeniería metalúrgica, Ingeniería química, Lixiviación, Reacción sólido-fluido, Metalurgia extractiva, Modelos matemáticos |
| Keyword: | Chemical engineering, Metallurgical engineering, Leaching, Solid-fluid reaction, Extractive metallurgy, Mathematical models |
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