In addition, by adjusting the electrolysis conditions, the rare earth elements in the molten salt can be extracted by a solid electrode to obtain a rare earth alloy with a specific composition, where the integration of the separation of rare earth elements and the preparation of material regeneration can be realized.
Molten salt is an excellent medium for chemical reaction, energy transfer, and storage. Molten salt innovative technologies should be developed to recover metals from secondary resources and reserve metals from primary natural sources. Among these technologies, molten salt electrolysis is an economic and environment-friendly …
In the molten salt electrolysis, rare earth metals/alloys with high purity can be manufactured by using tantalum, tungsten, or molybdenum as the cathode materials while graphite is usually employed as the anode material. Download: Download high-res image (192KB) Download: Download full-size image; Fig. 2.
The molten salt electrolysis process is the most widely used method for producing light rare earth metals and alloys in China, with distinct advantages such as continuous production and short ...
1. Introduction. Rare earths (REs) are strategic resources and key raw materials for a range of industries [1].Owing to their unique physical and chemical properties, REs are widely applied in high-tech fields, such as permanent magnets, catalysts, and etc. [[2], [3], [4]].Currently, RE metals or alloys are mainly produced by …
Owing to significant progress made in the field of rare earth metals and alloys prepared by molten salt electrolysis in China, this technology has been successfully applied for the production of ...
A conceptual diagram of the SEEE process is shown in Fig. 1.First, the Nd magnet scraps were immersed in a molten CaCl 2 –CaF 2 system containing MgCl 2 for …
The preparation of rare earth metals by molten salt electrolysis started from the molten salt system of chloride. Because of the proble ms of chloride electrolysis prep arat ion such as easy moisture
Molten salt is an excellent medium for chemical reaction, energy transfer, and storage. Molten salt innovative technologies should be developed to recover metals from secondary resources and reserve metals from primary natural sources. Among these technologies, molten salt electrolysis is an economic and environment-friendly …
Currently, more than 90% of the world's rare earth metals (REMs) and alloys are produced by molten salt electrolysis, and a large amount of rare earth molten salt electrolytic slag is generated every year, which contains a high content of REEs and has a significant recovery value.
The diffusion coefficient of Ce (III) ions was estimated by cyclic voltammetry (CV), semi-integral analysis and chronopotentiometry (CP). The electrochemical …
Overall: 2NdCl 3 → 2Nd (solid) + 3Cl 2. This process has several distinct advantages. Utilizing the chlorine reaction eliminates the need for a sacial anode …
Molten salt electrolysis has the advantages of low water consumption and low hazardous waste during REE recovery. This review systematically summarizes the separation and …
Fused salt electrolysis as applied to the production of reactive refractory metals is a useful process for rare earth metals preparation also. The relatively low melting point of some of the rare earth metals and many of their alloys is an advantage here. With great ingenuity, electrolytic cells have been designed and methods developed for the ...
Fused salt electrolysis is appropriate for the preparation of low melting rare earth metals. Electrolysis methods that are often limited to <1100°C are impractical for preparing terbium metal due ...
Abstract. With the increasing demand of rare earth metals in functional materials, recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from secondary resources has become important for the green economy transition. Molten salt electrolysis has the …
Rare earth (RE) metals have many unique properties, such as photic, electric, magnetic, and hydrogen storage properties, due to the unique unpaired 4f and 5f electrons structure and their rich energy levels structrue, which have been extensively investigated for their potential applications in various fields [1,2,3].Electrodeposition is a …
Considering economic and environmental issues, the current rare earth metal molten-salt electrolytic processes mostly use fluoride molten salts. However, in producing RE metals or alloys by molten-salt electrolysis, the REE recovery rate is usually <95%; most of the lost REEs enter the molten-salt electrolytic slag (Pang et al., 2011).
Compared with solid metals, liquid metals are considered more promising cathodes for molten slat/oxide electrolysis due to their fascinating advantages, which include strong depolarization effect, strong alloying effect, excellent selective separation, and low operating temperature. In this review, we briefly introduce the properties of the …
The Hall-Héroult process, developed in 1885, utilizes a molten salt electrolyte to electrochemically produce aluminum metal (Al) and carbon dioxide (CO 2) from aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3) and carbon. 1–3 Similar molten salt techniques have been developed for a variety of other metals including the rare earth metal Neodymium (Nd). Neodymium is ...
As shown in Figure 1, the XRD analysis shows that the main mineralogical phase in the rare earth molten salt electrolytic slag are NdF 3, (Nd,Pr)F 3, NdOF, LiF and Fe 3 O 4.As shown in Figure 2, The rare earth phase in non-magnetic fraction exists in the form of rare earth fluoride, and there are also small amounts of hematite, limonite, …
In recent years, researchers of IMR have explored the oxygen reduction methods in molten salt electrolysis process, and high purity rare earth metals were successfully prepared by regulating …
Fluoride salt system is a better system for preparing rare earth metals and their alloys from molten salt electrolysis of rare earth oxides. ... There are several excellent reviews that deal with ...
REE refining is the focus of this study. Calciothermic, metallothermic, and molten salt electrolysis (MSE) are the three major reduction processes in the production of REEs in China [10].The first two processes are not commonly preferred due to the high temperature requirement, high energy intensity, and need to be performed via …
Molten salt electrodeposition is the process of producing impressively dense deposits of refractory metals using the electrolysis of molten salts. However, predicting which electrochemical parameters and setup will best control different kinds of deposition (density, homogeneity, etc.) is an ongoing challenge, due to our limited understanding of …
With the increasing demand of rare earth metals in functional materials, recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from secondary resources has become important for the green economy transition. Molten salt electrolysis has the advantages of low water consumption and low hazardous waste during REE recovery. This review systematically …
First, the rare earth metal will be incorporated into the molten salt by electrochemically dissolving the anode containing the rare earth elements. Second, rare …
2.2. Molten salt electrochemical electrolysis Molten salt plays an important role as an electrolyte medi-um in electrochemistry. At present, most metals are extrac-ted from the minerals of crustal deposits. Primary metals are mainly extracted using mining, flotation, hydrometallurgy, and pyrometallurgy.
A new recycling process for the extraction of rare earths from neodymium–iron–boron (NdFeB) magnet scrap is being developed, based on the direct extraction of rare earths from end-of-life magnet material in a molten fluoride electrolysis bath. Rare earths are required in their metallic form for the production of new NdFeB …
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106711 Corpus ID: 228891564; Selective extraction of rare earths and lithium from rare earth fluoride molten-salt electrolytic slag by sulfation @article{Wang2021SelectiveEO, title={Selective extraction of rare earths and lithium from rare earth fluoride molten-salt electrolytic slag by sulfation}, author={Jinliang Wang and …
On the base of a discussion in all kinds of production methods of Al-Sc alloy, the molten salt electrolysis method was used to produce Al-Sc alloy directively. It is found that as the current density increasing, the concentration of Sc in alloy increases gradually. The maximal concentration of Sc can be 1 5%. But as the MR is increased, the concentration …
The separation process of Sb from Pb-Sb alloy in molten NaCl-CaCl 2 was shown in Fig. 6 a. During the molten salt electrolysis, the Cl-in the molten gives electrons at the graphite rod anode and then is oxidized to Cl 2 gas. Meanwhile, the Ca 2+ at the anode receives the electrons and then alloys with Sb from the Pb-Sb alloy to form Ca …
The purity of rare earth metals is one of the most important factors to research and develop high technique materials. However, high purity rare earth metals are not easily achieved. This review summarizes the preparation and purification methods of rare earth metals. First, the preparation principle and process of molten salt …
diaphragm surface to form rare earth alloys. Third, the target rare earth metal diffuses onto the surface of the cathode space through the alloy diaphragm and then dissolves into the mol-ten salt as RE ion. Last, the target element is recovered as a rare earth metal or alloy on the cathode.
With the increasing demand of rare earth metals in functional materials, recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from secondary resources has become important for the green economy transition. Molten salt electrolysis has the advantages of low water consumption and low hazardous waste during REE recovery. This review systematically summarizes …
Optimization of A side (rare earth) components in AB 5 alloys. (2) Optimization of B side elements in AB 5 alloys. The characteristics of some rare earth hydrides are summarized in a table. For example, when Metal hydride is LaNi 5 H 6.0, hydrogen content/% is 1.4, decomposition pressure/MPa is 0.4 (50 ℃), and heat of …