Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2021, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (7): 73-79.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2020-0473

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Online determination of the solubility of lithium carbonate in water and NaCl-KCl solution system

Wang Bin1,2,3,4(),Deng Xiaochuan1,2(),Shi Yifei1,2,Dong Chaochao1,2,3,Fan Faying1,2,Zhu Chaoliang1,2,Fan Jie1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources,Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xining 810008,China
    2. Qinghai Engineering and Technology Research Center of Comprehensive Utilization of Salt Lake Resources
    3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    4. Yinchuan Branch of State Power Science & Research Institute Co.,Ltd.
  • Received:2020-08-19 Online:2021-07-10 Published:2021-07-13
  • Contact: Deng Xiaochuan E-mail:wangbin181@mails.ucas.ac.cn;dengxch@isl.ac.cn

Abstract:

The solubility of lithium carbonate is a very important basic data in industrial crystal production.An immersion in-frared probe and a Raman probe were used to test the changes in the characteristic peaks of CO32- and Li2CO3 in the solution system online.Based on Lambert-Beer′s law,the solubility of lithium carbonate was determined online in real time in the solu-tion system.By online monitoring,the solubility of lithium carbonate in the NaCl-KCl solution(cNaCl=0.446 6 mol/L,cKCl=0.015 8 mol/L) was measured higher than the solubility value in water.In this experiment,the solubility data in water could be well correlated with the Van′t Hoff equation,which could calculate the solubility of lithium carbonate in water at other tem-perature.Moreover,the solubility data of lithium carbonate in water determined by this method was smaller than the solubility data measured by gravimetric analysis method in the literature,which was caused by the different test equipment.

Key words: lithium carbonate, solubility, online monitoring, infrared, Raman

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