Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2021, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (8): 36-43.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2020-0545

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Preliminary study on scrubbing and stripping operation of the extracted organic phase in wet phosphoric acid process by hydrochloric acid route

Zhang Shaojie(),Tang Shengwei,Wang Yang,Zheng Dongyue,Zhong Benhe,Chen Yanxiao()   

  1. School of Chemical Engineering,Sichuan University,Chengdu 610065,China
  • Received:2020-10-12 Online:2021-08-10 Published:2021-08-11
  • Contact: Chen Yanxiao E-mail:sjzhang@stu.scu.edu.cn;yxchen888@163.com

Abstract:

The process of back extraction of phosphoric acid from tributyl phosphate(TBP) was studied.The quality of the different stripped phosphoric acid obtained by the one-step process(simultaneously precipitating CaCl2 and stripping H3PO4 with H2SO4 solution) and by the two-step process(firstly precipitating and removing CaCl2 with H2SO4,then stripping H3PO4 with deionized water) was investigated.The results showed that in the one-step process the purity of the stripped phosphoric acid was affected by the dissolution balance of calcium sulfate with high content of calcium,while in the two-step process,the contents of CaCl2 in the stripped reduced to below 0.002 7%,and the value of n(H3PO4)/n(Ca2+) increased by more than 65 times,but the H3PO4 loss in organic phase caused by scrubbing process was about 20%.The focused beam reflectance measurement(FBRM) technology was used to monitor the crystallization of calcium sulfate on line in the organic phase during the scrubbing process.The morphology and phase composition of the calcium sulfate were analyzed by scanning electron microscope(SEM) and X-ray diffraction(XRD) methods.The results showed that after scrubbing for 10 min under the experimental conditions,Ca2+ in the system basically generated hemihydrate gypsum(CaSO4·0.5H2O).Theoretical calcula-tion indicated that the production of the by-product gypsum(calculated as CaSO4·2H2O) in scrubbing step of the wet phosp-horic acid process by hydrochloric acid route was only equivalent to 8.7% of that by sulfuric acid route,significantly reduces the amount of gypsum treated in the wet process phosphoric acid process.

Key words: wet process phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid route, solvent extraction, scrubbing, stripping

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