Abstract
For separation and recovery of different but chemically similar metal from dilute wastewater with reduced process complexity and cost, a supported liquid membrane (SLM) system that utilizes a single carrier together with strip dispersion for selective stripping of coextracted metal ions was proposed to enable concurrent separation and recovery. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed SLM system for separative recovery of copper and zinc from real plating wastewater. Solvent extraction experiments were conducted to understand the effect of feed pH and carrier concentration on organic phase migration to the aqueous phase. The effect of stirring speed on the SLM transport rate was studied using synthetic feed. Combined with the insights from our previous study, appropriate settings were identified and applied to the SLM system. The SLM system could recover 83.7% copper with 91.0% purity and 85.5% Zn with 99.3% purity from the plating wastewater in 30 h. The findings indicate the feasibility of using SLM with selective stripping for the concurrent separation and recovery of copper and zinc from a dilute aqueous waste stream predominantly containing these two metals.
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