Recovery of Uranium from Sulfate Leach Liquor using n-Hexane extractant sourced from Sun Flower Agriculture Waste
- Chemistry Dep., Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Egypt.
- Nuclear Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530 El-Maadi, Cairo, Egypt.
- Chemistry Dep., Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Turabah, Taif University.
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The possibility of using the sunflower Helianthus annuusextractant (HAE) as a solvent extractant for uranium from sulfate leach liquor has been studied. Several experiments were conducted to determine the relevant factors affecting both the extraction and stripping of uranium from a synthetic standard solution. At the optimum conditions, it was found that the maximum saturation capacity of the HAE attains about 33 mg/1g of the extractant for uranium. Kinetic characteristics of the loading process have been found to satisfactorily fitting to the pseudo-first-order equation. The obtained optimum conditions have also been applied to investigate the potentiality of the working HAE for extraction of uranium from an actual sulfate leach liquor of Abu-Zeneima ore material (South Eastern Sainai, Egypt).
[Amani M. El-Mesallamy, Enass M. El-Sheikh, EL-Sayed A. Manaa, Mohamed A. El-Maksoud (2015); Recovery of Uranium from Sulfate Leach Liquor using n-Hexane extractant sourced from Sun Flower Agriculture Waste Int. J. of Adv. Res. 3 (Nov). 50-65] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
