A RARE EARTH SEPARATION BY ANION EXCHANGE

Rare-Earth Separation Using Bacteria

The rare-earth elements are critical to many green energy technologies but are difficult to separate from one another because of their chemical similarity. We demonstrate an alternative, biogenic method based on the adsorption of lanthanide to the bacterium Roseobacter sp. AzwK-3b, immobilized on an assay filter, followed by subsequent desorption as a function of pH. The elution desorption data...

Separation of Hafnium From Zirconium by Anion Exchange

G . H evesy has written that [6] 1 " In view of the I.great similarity b etween hafnium and zirconium, i t ris hardly possible to separate these two elements in a lsingle operation ." A simple one-step separation c adequ a te for analytical work has still to be developed for hafnium-ziTconium mixtures, although recent work employing ion exchange has developed suitable methods for the separation...

Separation of rare earths by split-anion extraction

Accurate Measurement of Rare Earth Elements by ICP-MS after Ion-Exchange Separation: Application to Ultra-Depleted Samples

This study reports precise and accurate data for rare earth elements (REE) measured on eight geological reference materials, five enriched in REE (BE-N, BHVO-2, BR, BR-24 and RGM-1) and three very depleted in REE (BIR-1, UB-N and DTS-2). Data were acquired by quadrupole ICP-MS after isolation of the REE using an ion-exchange chromatography procedure. All the measured REE abundances are similar ...

Recovery and Separation of Rare Earth Elements Using Salmon Milt

Recycling rare earth elements (REEs) used in advanced materials such as Nd magnets is important for the efficient use of REE resources when the supply of several REEs is limited. In this work, the feasibility of using salmon milt for REE recovery and separation was examined, along with the identification of the binding site of REEs in salmon milt. Results showed that (i) salmon milt has a suffi...