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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R21653/01
Title:	Recovery of Metal Salts From Acid Media
Principal Investigator:	Tasker, Professor P
Other Investigators:	Schroder, Professor M
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	Avecia Limited Hatch & Associ‚s Inc
Department:	Sch of Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 June 2001	Ends:	31 May 2004	Value (£):	175,474
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Synthesis & Growth Mining & Minerals Extraction Separation Processes
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Manufacturing Chemicals Water
Related Grants:	GR/R21608/01
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Novel classes of heteroditopic ligands capable of complexing metal salts will be designed, synthesised and evaluated in processes to open up new flowsheets for metal salt recovery from primary sources. A number of challenging ligand design features will be addressed in order to achieve high selectivity, high transport efficiency, and resistance to hydrolysis in strongly acidic media. An important feature of the receptors proposed is that the metal salt is incorporated into a charge-separated zwitterionic form of the ligand. Critically, this provides a stripping protocol to recycle ligand, and for extraction in strongly acidic media, the potential to extract acid as well as metal salt with high selectivity and high-transfer efficiencies.
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