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EXTRACTION / LEACHING
CHAPTER / CONTENT
Rates of Leaching
Calculation in Leaching
Introduction to Leaching Process
The major difference between Leaching and LLE centers about the difficulty
to transport the solid or the solid slurry from stage to stage.
The solutes are diffuse from the solid to the liquid phase, which causes a
separation of the components in the solid by a contact with liquid solvent.
Extraction of oil from peanuts, soybeans, sunflower seeds, etc. using organic
solvent such as hexane.
Removing metals from their ores. For example, gold is leached from its ore
using an aqueous sodium cyanide solution.
Introduction to Leaching Process
PRINCIPLES OF LEACHING
1) The solvent is transferred from the bulk solution to the surface of the
solid.
2) The solvent penetrates or diffuses into the solid (intraparticle diffusion).
3) The solute dissolves from the solid into the solvent.
4) The solute diffuses through the mixture to the surface of the solid
(intraparticle diffusion).
5) The solute is transferred to the bulk solution.
Batch leaching
The rate of mass transfer of the solute A being dissolved to the solution of
volume V in m3 is:
where
NA kg mol of A dissolving to the solution per second
k L c AS c A Eq.1
NA
A the surface area of particles in m 2
A
kL mass tansfer coefficient in m/s
c AS saturation solubility of the solid solute A in the
N A Ak L c AS c A
dcA
V solution in kg mol/m 3
dt
c A concentration of A in the solution at time t sec in
kg mol/m 3
Integrating from time t = 0 and
cA = cA0 to t = t and cA = cA:
cA t
dcA Ak L
c c AS c A V
dt
t 0
A0
c AS c A
e k L A V t
c AS c A0
Types of Equipments for Leaching
Used in beet sugar industry and is also used for extraction of tanning
extracts from the tanbark, extraction of pharmaceuticals from barks and
seeds and other processes.
The seeds are usually dehulled first, sometimes precooked, often partially
dried and rolled or flaked.
When the solid can be ground fine abou 200 mesh (0.074 mm), it can kept
in suspension by small amounts of agitation.
Sufficient solvent is present so that all the solute in the entering solid dissolved
in the solvent.
The solute in the entering solid dissolved completely in the first stage.
No adsorption of the solute by the solid.
The settled solid leaving a stage always contains some liquid in which dissolved
solids is present.
The amount of solution retained with the solids in the settling portion of each
stage may depend the density and viscosity of liquid in which the solid is
suspended.
Equilibrium Relations in Leaching
xA
kg A
kg solute
solute concentration in overflow
kg A kg C kg solution
yA
kg A
kg solute
solute concentration in underflow
kg A kg C kg solution
Calculation in Leaching
Process flow
Example 12.9-1
In a single – stage leaching of soybean oil from flaked soybeans with hexane, 100
kg of soybean containing 20 wt% oil is leached with 100 kg of fresh hexane solvent.
The value of N for the slurry underflow is essentially constant at 1.5 kg insoluble
solid/kg solution retained.
Calculate the amounts and compositions of the overflow V1 and the underflow
slurry L1 leaving the stage.
Single – stage calculations
Solution 1
Information given:
Solution 1
Mass of C = 0 kg C = 0 kg
A A 20
y A0 1.0
L0 A C 20 0
B B 80
N0 4 .0
L0 A C 20 0
Solution 1
Mass of A = 0 A = 0 kg
Mass of B = 0 B = 0 kg
A A 0
x2 0
V2 A C 0 100
B B 0
N2 0
V2 A C 0 100
Solution 1
L0 V2 L1 V1 M
20 100 M M 120 kg
Component A balance:
L0 y A0 V2 x A2 Mx AM
201.0 1000 120x AM
x AM 0.167
Single – stage calculations
Solution 1
Solid balance:
B N 0 L0 N1 L1 N M M
N 0 L0 N M M
420 N M 120 N M 0.667
Construct straight vertical line through point M in order to find value V1 and
L1
Single – stage calculations
Solution 1
From figure,
Solution 1
Solid balance:
B N 0 L0 N1 L1 N M M
N1 L1 N M M
1.5L1 0.667120 L1 53.36 kg
Single – stage calculations
Solution 1
V1 120 L1 Eq.1
V1 120 53.36 V1 66.64 kg
Multi – stage counter current Leaching
Process flow
The ideal stages are numbered in the direction of the solids or underflow stream.
The solvent (C) – solute (A) phase or V phase is the liquid phase that overflows
continuously from stage to stage countercurrently to the solid phase, and it
dissolves solute as it moves along.
The slurry phase L composed of inert solid (B) and liquid phase of A and C is the
continuous underflow from each stage.
Composition of V – denoted by x
Composition of L – denoted by y
Assumption: The solid B is insoluble and is not lost in the liquid V phase.
Component A balance :
L0 y A 0 VN 1 x AN 1 LN y AN V1 x A1 Mx AM
Solid balance :
B N 0 L0 N N LN N M M
Multi – stage counter current Leaching
Example 12.10-1
A continuous countercurrent multistage system is to be used to leach oil from meal
by benzene solvent (B3).
The process is to treat 2000 kg/h of inert solid meal (B) containing 800 kg oil (A)
and also 50 kg benzene (C).
The inlet flow per hour of fresh solvent mixture contains 1310 kg benzene and 20
kg oil. The leached solids are to contain 120 kg oil.
Data (B3) are tabulated below as N kg inert solid B/kg solution and yA kg oil A/kg
solution
Calculate the amounts and concentrations of the stream leaving the process and the
number of stages required.
Multi – stage counter current Leaching
Solution 2
Information given:
Solution 2
Information given:
Solution 2
Mass of C = 50 kg/h
A A 800 800
y A0 0.94
L0 A C 800 50 850
B B 2000 2000
N0 2.35
L0 A C 800 50 850
Solution 2
Mass of A = 20 kg/h
Mass of B = 0 kg/h
A A 20 20
x N 1 0.015
VN 1 A C 20 1310 1330
B B 0
N N 1 0
VN 1 A C 20 1310
Solution 2
Mass of C = ?? kg/h
NN
Slope of graph,
yN
B
N N LN B 2000
16.67 N 16.67 y
yN A A 120
LN
Solution 2
3
LN
2 L0
1
0
VN 1
-0.4 -0.2 -1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
N
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
x A, y A
Multi – stage counter current Leaching
Solution 2
Component A balance:
L0 y A0 VN 1 xN 1 Mx AM
8500.94 13300.015 2180x AM
x AM 0.376
Multi – stage counter current Leaching
Solution 2
Solid balance:
B N 0 L0 N N LN N M M
N 0 L0 N M M
2.35850 N M 2180 N M 0.916
3
LN
2 L0
M
1
V1
0 VN 1
-0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
-1
N
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
x A, y A
From figure,
Solution 2
V1 2180 LN Eq.1
Component A balance:
LN y N V1 x1 Mx AM
LN 0.12 V1 0.592 21800.376
Solution 2
V1 2180 LN Eq.1
V1 2180 997.62
V1 1182.38 kg
Connect L0 with V1 & LN with VN+1. The cross line – operating point.
Solution 2
Construct the stages:
3
LN L3 L2
2 L1 L0
M
1
V1
0 VN 1
-0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
-1
N
-2
-3
-4
-5
P -6
-7
x A, y A