In the manufacture of printed circuit boards, the copper dissolved during etching can be used to replace the copper needed for plating using a liquid ion-exchange agent. Extraction and stripping studies demonstrated the feasibility. The quality of the etchant was not affected by the presence of the ion-exchange agent. Good-quality deposits were plated from the stripping solution with a current ...

A simple and sensitive method is described for the pre-concentration by cloud point extraction followed by atomic absorption spectrometric determination of copper ion in real samples. At a solution pH of 5.5, 5, 5-diphenylimidazolidine-2, 4-dione (phenytoin) (DFID) and TritonX-114 were used as hydrophobic ligand and non-ionic surfactant. The adopted concentrations for DFID, Triton X-114 and HNO...

In this paper we study the long-term operation of an underground copper mining project. We model the project as a collection of blocks (minimal extraction units) each with its own mineral composition and extraction costs. The decision maker’s problem is to maximize the economic value of the project by controlling the sequence and rate of extraction as well as investing on costly capacity expans...

Copper-mine tailings are the residual products after the extraction of precious copper metal from copper ores, and their storage can create numerous environmental problems. Many researchers have used copper-mine tailings for the preparation of geopolymers. This paper studies the enhancement of the cementitious activity of copper-mine tailings in geopolymer systems. First, copper-mine tailings a...

AbstractIndigenous plants have been grown naturally and vigorously in copper contaminated soils. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the phytoremediation ability of two indigenous plants naturally grown in two vineyard soils copper contaminated, and in a copper mining waste. However, it was evaluated the macro and micronutrient uptake and the potential of phytoremediation. So, a greenho...

This paper describes the isolation and amino acid analysis of un-cross-linked elastin obtained by neutral salt extraction from the ligamentum nuchae of a calf fed from birth to 9 months on a diet low in copper.

modern hydrometallurgical techniques have been adopted to produce high-purity gold. many extractants were used for the extraction of gold from various synthetic solutions from which dibutyl carbitol (dbc) had a unique superiority. kinetics of process was studied in this paper and the influence of several parameters such as stirring speed, agitation time, impeller type, interfacial area, [aucl4]...

Organic amendments often represent a source of trace metals (TMs) in soils, which may partly leach into the groundwater. The objectives of this study were (1) to validate Hydrus-2D for modeling the transport of Zn and Cu in an Alfisol amended with pig slurry (PS) by comparing numerical simulations and experimental field data, and (2) to model the next 50 years of TM movements under scenarios of...