Inorganic Chemicals Industry

Study on cooling process of brine system containing lithium and potassium

  • Sun Zeyan ,
  • Huang Xueli ,
  • Wang Xueying
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  • Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cleaner Transition of Coal & Chemical Process,College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Xinjiang University,Urumqi 830046,China

Online published: 2019-12-20

Abstract

Aimed at salt lake brine containing Li+,Na+,K+,Cl- and SO42-,the study on the change of liquid composition and crys tallization regularity of the brine with different compositions were carried out during natural and artificial cooling processes. The results showed:for the brines with the approximate concentrations,natural and artificial cooling processes had little effec ted on the change of liquid composition and crystallization regularity of the brine at some extent;for the brine with high conc entration of sulfate,as the decreasing of temperature,the sulfate content reduced gradually,especially at -10 ℃;when the tem perature decreased to -15 ℃,the sulfate mass fraction reached about 0.5%;for the brines with low sulfate and high lithium,as the temperature decreasing,potassium chloride crystallized out and lithium was enriched;compared with the normal tempera ture,there was no double salts separated from the salt lake brine containing Li+,Na+,K+,Cl- and SO42- at low temperature.The research would provide a theoretical guidance to exploit the salt lake source in the environment of low temperature.

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Sun Zeyan , Huang Xueli , Wang Xueying . Study on cooling process of brine system containing lithium and potassium[J]. Inorganic Chemicals Industry, 2019 , 51(12) : 15 -19 . DOI: 10.11962/1006-4990.2019-0050

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