What is it about?
Titanium dioxide widely use for pigment industries. One of the way to produce titanium dioxide is by hydrometallurgical process. There are 3 steps for titanium dioxide production: leaching, solvent extraction, and precipitation. In this experiment, we conducted the second steps: solvent extraction. The process is to separate titanium (aq) and iron (aq) in acid solution by using chemical agent.
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Why is it important?
Ilmenite supplies about 90% of the world demand for titanium minerals, mainly to make titanium dioxide for the pigment industry. In fact, Indonesia has abundant resources of Ilmenite. However, there is no plant or smelter that can produce titanium dioxide and the pigment industry still import the titanium dioxide from another country. Therefore lab experiment is necessary to get the best condition to produce titanium dioxide in Indonesia.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as I didn't expect my final project research can be published internationally. I hope this article can help another researcher or people who are interest in hydrometallurgical process, specifically in solvent extraction. I know it is not easy to conduct hydrometallurgical experiment since the process takes so much time. But, I hope this article can guide you to find your solution.
Bella Mudiniyanti
Institut Teknologi Bandung
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This page is a summary of: Separation of titanium from iron in hydrochloric solution by solvent extraction using tributyl phosphate, January 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0186111.
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