Sulfuric acid baking and leaching of spent Co-Mo/Al2O3 catalyst

Dissolution of metals from a pre-oxidized refinery plant spent Co-Mo/Al(2)O(3) catalyst have been tried through low temperature (200-450 degrees C) sulfuric acid baking followed by mild leaching process. Direct sulfuric acid leaching of the same sample, resulted poor Al and Mo recoveries, whereas le...

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Published in:Journal of hazardous materials 2009-07, Vol.166 (2-3), p.1540-1544
Main Authors: KIM, Hong-In, PARK, Kyung-Ho, MISHRA, Devabrata
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum - isolation & purification
Aluminum Oxide - chemistry
Applied sciences
Catalysis
Catalytic reactions
Chemical engineering
Chemistry
Cobalt - isolation & purification
Exact sciences and technology
General and physical chemistry
Industrial Waste - prevention & control
Korea
Metals, Heavy - isolation & purification
Molybdenum - isolation & purification
Pollution
Reactors
Refuse Disposal - methods
Sulfuric Acids - chemistry
Temperature
Theory of reactions, general kinetics. Catalysis. Nomenclature, chemical documentation, computer chemistry
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Summary:Dissolution of metals from a pre-oxidized refinery plant spent Co-Mo/Al(2)O(3) catalyst have been tried through low temperature (200-450 degrees C) sulfuric acid baking followed by mild leaching process. Direct sulfuric acid leaching of the same sample, resulted poor Al and Mo recoveries, whereas leaching after sulfuric acid baking significantly improved the recoveries of above two metals. The pre-oxidized spent catalyst, obtained from a Korean refinery plant found to contain 40% Al, 9.92% Mo, 2.28% Co, 2.5% C and trace amount of other elements such as Fe, Ni, S and P. XRD results indicated the host matrix to be poorly crystalline gamma- Al(2)O(3). The effect of various baking parameters such as catalyst-to-acid ratio, baking temperature and baking time on percentage dissolutions of metals has been studied. It was observed that, metals dissolution increases with increase in the baking temperature up to 300 degrees C, then decreases with further increase in the baking temperature. Under optimum baking condition more than 90% Co and Mo, and 93% Al could be dissolved from the spent catalyst with the following leaching condition: H(2)SO(4)=2% (v/v), temperature=95 degrees C, time=60 min and Pulp density=5%.
ISSN:0304-3894
1873-3336
DOI:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2008.11.051