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EP3339480A1
EP3339480A1 EP16205757.4A EP16205757A EP3339480A1 EP 3339480 A1 EP3339480 A1 EP 3339480A1 EP 16205757 A EP16205757 A EP 16205757A EP 3339480 A1 EP3339480 A1 EP 3339480A1
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Ana Maria Martinez CUELLAR
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  • the present invention is related to electrochemical production of rare earth alloys and metals, and especially to a one-step electro chemical production method comprising a liquid anode.
  • Rare earth alloys and metals are important ingredients in modern electronic components like semiconductors, but also in products like permanent magnets etc.
  • the Peoples Republic of China is dominating the production of rare earth (RE), and for example, in 2011 the Chinese production covered 97 % of the world market.
  • RE rare earth
  • the geological availability and distribution of RE is unevenly distributed around the world and it is therefore an international interest in developing alternative second sources of RE materials mitigating any problems related to higher prices and reliable and sustainable delivery of RE alloys and metals.
  • Prior art electrochemical refining of metals are applied both in aqueous and molten salt electrochemical processes.
  • the refining is commonly based on an impure metal containing anode being refined to a pure cathode. More noble impurities remain in the anode or anode compartment and less noble substances accumulate in the electrolyte.
  • An example of prior art is the three layer refining of liquid aluminium dissolved in a copper containing alloy invented by Hoppes and patented in 1925.
  • the refining process takes place in a vertically arranged molten salt cell, wherein the aluminium dissolved in the copper alloy is arranged at the bottom of the cell, and the refined pure aluminium is floating at the top of the electrolyte.
  • a common technique in prior art when recycling used permanent magnets and scrap metals comprises a step of oxidizing the permanent magnet and scrap metal materials followed by a purifying step and electrolysis of oxidized materials dissolved in a molten salt.
  • CN 103409649B disclosing a liquid metal and molten salt reduction method and apparatus for extraction and separation of rare earth metals comprising a liquid aluminium cathode and an anode graphite rod added to a heated bath melted as an electrolyte. Lithium aluminium-lithium alloy is dissolved in the liquid aluminium.
  • Recovering RE alloys and metals from a specific electrochemical process is also subject to cost/benefit assessments in addition to environmental considerations.
  • the cost of recovered RE alloys and metals has to be on a level accepted by end users of the recovered materials. Therefore, there is a need of improved methods recovering compounds comprising rare earth, and/or rear earth alloys and/or rear earth metals.
  • An aspect of the present invention is to reduce the number of process steps, and at the same time increase output of rare earth alloys and metals from the process.
  • the present invention is based on an alloy system with high solubility of the actual rare earth metal(s) or rare earth alloy(s).
  • RE rear earth
  • the above described object and several other objects are intended to be obtained in a first aspect of the invention by providing a method of recycling elements including compounds comprising rare earth (RE), and/or RE alloys and/or RE metals from raw materials including permanent magnets and/or scrap metals containing iron (Fe) and elements to be recycled in an electrochemical process from a molten salt, comprising steps of:
  • the known technology used in China relies on an electrolytic process using a vertically arranged cell comprising consumable carbon anodes and molybdenum or tungsten as inert or iron as consumable cathode materials.
  • the RE or RE alloy is deposited in a liquid form at a temperature around 1050 °C.
  • the electrolyte consists of an equimolar REF 3 -LiF mixture, and the RE 2 O 3 raw material is applied batch wise or continuously at the top of the electrolyte.
  • a parameter of interest when designing an electrolysis cell is the kinetics of the electrodes. It is believed that liquid anodes perform better in this respect than an anode consisting of solid chunks of alloys when refining rare earth elements.
  • FIG. 1 a different cell design according to the present invention with a liquid anode is schematically illustrated in Figure 1 .
  • the rare earth containing raw material is placed in the anode compartment 10 from where the RE present in the raw material (for example Nd, Dy, Pr) will be anodically dissolved in the form of ions, which will be discharged at the cathode 11 as metals and/or magnetic rare earth alloys 12.
  • the recovery of REs from the raw material can be extracted, and a valuable product (RE or alloy) can be obtained in one single electrochemical step.
  • a desired working temperature is below 1100 °C.
  • Providing a lower melting point when recycling permanent magnets and/or scrap metal comprising Fe can be achieved by adding low melting point materials known to achieve such an effect.
  • low melting point materials known to achieve such an effect.
  • a permanent magnet comprising Nd it is known that Cu forms low melting phases with Nd, but not with Fe.
  • Al the inventors has demonstrated that Al forms low melting areas with Nd and Fe in the Al rich regions. Calculating a ternary phase diagram of Al-Nd-Fe can be achieved with commercially available thermodynamic computer programs like FactSage as known in prior art. The same demonstration has been performed with other RE elements with similar results.
  • Si forms low melting point alloys with several elements like Cu and Al.
  • phase diagram reveals a relative large region of molten Fe-Al-Si alloys of different compositions that exist below a temperature of 1050 °C.
  • liquid content of Fe at 1050 °C varies from 20 wt% without Si present to a maximum of 50 wt% when Si is present.
  • Al-Si alloys are commercially available, which is an important aspect when considering commercial applications of a liquid anode according to the present invention comprising AlSi.
  • AlSi is added to the liquid anode.
  • Figure 2 illustrates examples of how liquidus curves of the quaternary system of AlSi-Fe-Nd can be obtained. The same type of illustrations are valid for other RE elements.
  • the cross sections of the AlSi-Fe-RE system from contact lines between the AlSi corner and the Fe-RE (for example Nd) side of the triangle in figure 2 will provide liquidus curves enabling a prediction of melting points of the anode alloy when the electrolysis proceeds and the content of respectively RE and Fe decreases and increases.
  • Table 1 Alloy# Al:Si composition wt%:wt% Composition Al:Si:Magnet wt%:wt%:wt% Remarks 1 70:30 54:23:23 Homogeneous 2 70:30 48:21:31 Homogeneous 3 70:30 44:19:37 Homogeneous 4 90:10 54:6:40 Homogeneous
  • a liquid anode is formed of aluminium and silicon and dissolved RE alloys with iron and boron (Al-Si-Fe-RE-B).
  • the liquid anode is forming a multinary liquid alloy system having a larger liquid domain for the RE, RE alloys or RE metals dissolved in the liquid anode. Further, the multinary liquid alloy system is provided with metal elements being more noble than the RE or the RE containing alloy(s) to be recycled.
  • a method of recycling rare earth (RE), and/or RE alloys and/or RE metals from raw materials including permanent magnets and/or scrap metals containing RE and iron (Fe) in an electrochemical process from a molten salt comprising the steps of:
  • the added specific amounts of respectively Al and Si elements are forming a multinary liquid alloy system having a working temperature below the melting point of the rare earth containing metallic raw material, preferable in the range of 1000-1100 °C.
  • the working temperature of the liquid anode may be 1050 °C.
  • the cathode may be a Fe cathode and the reactions are as follows:
  • the step of dissolving permanent magnetic material may provide a liquid anode comprising Al-Si-Fe-RE-B.
  • the permanent magnets may be Nd based permanent magnets.
  • the cathode may be a solid cathode and the step of collecting recycled elements comprises collecting the RE(s) or RE alloy(s) in solid form.
  • the step of collecting the RE(s) or RE alloy(s) may comprise collecting liquid iron-RE(s) alloys formed through a reaction on a consumable iron cathode.
  • the RE containing permanent magnets and/or scrap metals may be delivered into the liquid anode compartment from a feeding chamber.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of principles of a functional cell according to the present invention.
  • a tube or canal 20 provides transport of waste material to be recycled into the molten alloy being part of the liquid anode 21 residing in a compartment.
  • An electric lead 22 is connected to a positive electric pole 23 of the power supply.
  • the electric lead 22 is connected to a finger like electrode configuration being arranged inside the molten alloy.
  • the cathode 24 is connected to the negative pole of the power supply and at the bottom of the cell below the cathode a compartment is arranged receiving cathode products.

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