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Metal Recovery From Leach Solutions
Metal Recovery From Leach Solutions
• Zinc precipitation
• Gaseous precipitation
• Electrolysis (electrometallurgy)
• Solvent extraction
Electrometallurgy
Objective
• For students to know the basic principles
governing electrometallurgical operations.
• To know the general factors affecting the
process.
• Application of electrochemistry to
electrometallurgy
Content
• Electro-winning and electro-refining
• Factors affecting process of electrolysis
• Electrolysis of silver
• Application of electrochemistry to
electrometallurgy
Electro winning and refining
• Electro winning is the commercial deposition
of a metal from its solution onto an inert
electrode.
• Electro refining is the refining of the metal
from its anode to obtain the cathode metal in
its purest form under certain conditions.
Factors affecting the process of electrolysis