Applications - Precious Metal Recovery

The economic recovery of precious metals from liquid process, waste and effluent streams presents a major technical challenge.
PhosphonicS™ has developed a range of materials specially designed for precious metal recovery designed to efficiently remove precious metals with the following key operational advantages:

• High Affinity for all of the common Precious Metals in their different oxidation states – giving High Scavenging Efficiency
• High Metal Capacity compared to other PGM adsorbents
• Excellent selectivity for the target metal
• Fast acting - highly active at ambient temperatures; scavenging accelerated at elevated temperature
• Effective in dilute and concentrated solutions
• Broad solvent and pH compatibility, in organic and aqueous systems
• Excellent stability - thermal, physical, chemical and mechanical
• Wide operating parameters
• Used in variety of engineered formats (column, cartridge etc)
• Simple Metal Recycling – efficient solid or liquid handling recovery options

These can bring a number of benefits for end users:

Benefits to End Users:

• Maximise Metal Value Recovery for Low Capex
• Reduce Metal Investment – faster recycling, more flexible
• Reduce or Eliminate Waste Disposal Costs
• Meet Discharge Targets for heavy metals
• Enhance Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility Profile

Current field applications include:

• Ruthenium and Iridium removal from organic waste solutions
• Rhodium removal from low concentration streams
• Selective Gold removal from metal streams
• Palladium recovery from chemical catalyst streams
• Platinum removal from reactive chemical process streams