Electrochemical Reduction of Iron Oxides in Aqueous NaOH Electrolyte Including Iron Residue from Nickel and Zinc Electrowinning Processes
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. 2022, Part F 341-347. 10.1007/978-3-030-92662-5_33Abstract
Experiments were carried out in NaOH-H2O (50–50 wt%) electrolyte with a suspension of Fe2O3 particles at ~100 ℃. A rotating disk electrode of graphite or silver was used as the cathode. The current efficiency for iron deposition was consistently higher than 90%. Recent experiments were carried out by using iron-containing residue from industrial electrolysis processes for producing nickel and zinc. The challenge is to purify the residue before electrolysis.