Metallurgy, Vol. 52 No. 2, 2013.
Preliminary communication
Platinum recovery from used auto catalytic converters in electrorefining process
A. Fornalczyk
; Department of Metallurgy, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland
M. Saternus
; Department of Metallurgy, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland
Abstract
This paper presents possibility of removing platinum from the used catalytic converters applying copper as a metal collector in pyrometallurgical methods. The catalytic converter carrier was grinded and melted with copper. During the research obtained Cu-Pt alloy was casted as an anode. Such anode was electrically refined in order to recover platinum. Obtained results were discussed.
Keywords
Precious Group Metals (PGM); metal recovery; used auto catalytic converters; electrorefining
Hrčak ID:
92673
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Publication date:
1.4.2013.
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