M. Teramoto, Ayao Kariya, T. Yonehara
Jun 1, 1993
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Hydrometallurgy
Abstract
Abstract The recovery of gallium and indium from sulfate media by supported liquid membranes containing 2-bromodecanoic acid (2-BDA) as a carrier was performed by using both a batch type stirred permeation cell and a continuous-type supported liquid membrane module with flat geometry. The effect of various experimental conditions on the permeation rates of gallium and indium were studied. A simple method is proposed for designing continuous supported liquid membrane modules from the data obtained with the batch type permeation cell on the basis of the correspondence of the parameters in batch operation to those of continuous operation. By this method, the membrane area required for given feed flow rate and the percentage recovery can be easily determined even for the case of multi-component separation.