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- Title
Utilizing Deep Eutectic Solvents in the Recycle, Recovery, Purification and Miscellaneous Uses of Rare Earth Elements.
- Authors
Alguacil, Francisco Jose
- Abstract
The boosted interest in using rare earth elements (REEs) in modern technologies has also increased the necessity of their recovery from various sources, including raw materials and wastes. Though hydrometallurgy plays a key role in these recovery processes, some drawbacks (apparent or not) of these processes (including the use of aggressive mineral acids, harmful extractants, and diluents, etc.) have led to the development of an environmental friendship subclass named solvometallurgy, in which non-aqueous solvents substituted to the aqueous media of the hydrometallurgical processing. Together with ionic liquids (ILs), the non-aqueous solvents chosen for these usages are the chemicals known as deep eutectic solvents (DEEs). The utilization of DEEs included the leaching of REEs from the different sources containing them and also in the separation-purification steps necessary for yielding these elements, normally oxides or salts, in the most purified form. This work reviewed the most recent literature (2023 year) about using deep eutectic solvents to recover REEs from various sources and coupling these two (DESs and REEs) to derive compounds to be used in other fields.
- Subjects
NONAQUEOUS solvents; EUTECTICS; SOLVENTS; RAW materials; IONIC liquids
- Publication
Molecules, 2024, Vol 29, Issue 6, p1356
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules29061356