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Chromium has been widely used in many industrial applications. As a result of chromite ore processing, large amounts of chromite ore processing waste (COPW) material that can be classified as hazardous have been produced and released into the environment. Therefore, knowledge of migration behavior and leaching rates of chromium through waste materials and soils are of primary concern for environmentally sound management of land-disposal hazardous wastes. Hask&ouml / k (1998) experimentally studied leaching rates of total Cr and Cr(VI) using laboratory columns packed with chromium COPW material produced by a sodium chromite plant. Based on the experimental results of Hask&ouml / k (1998), present study aim, through mathematical modeling, to understand the dissolution kinetics of chromium during leaching of COPW material and to investigate the effectiveness of intermittent leaching involving a sequence of batch (dissolution) and leaching (mass flushing) operational modes. Obtained results show that a coupled system of two first order differential equations was able to capture the essential characteristics of leaching behavior of COPW material. In addition, the kinetics of chromium dissolution from COPW appeared to be controlled by the difference between aqueous phase concentration and a saturation concentration, by the mass fraction of dissolvable chromium remaining in the solid phase, and finally by the contribution of a constant dissolution rate manifested as a steady-state tailing behavior. As a result of performed simulations it was seen that intermittent leaching could be 65%and 35% more effective than continuous leaching for total Cr and Cr(VI), respectively.

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Oxidation developed from the surfaces into the cores of the microwaved particles. Metallic particles were also formed during microwave exposure. Lihir gold ore, in which gold was finely disseminated in pyrite and marcasite, was an extremely refractory gold ore. Without pretreatment, only 37-39% of the gold could be extracted with sodium cyanide. However, this was improved after the head ores or floatation concentrates were pretreated by microwave radiation. 74.581.2% of the gold was extracted from the microwave treated head ore. The hydrometallurgical pretreatment of pyrite and marcasite in a microwave field and a conventional heating environment was also investigated.I,n a nitric acid solution, pyrite and marcasite can be rapidly leached. Reaction temperature and the concentration of HNO3 had a significant influence on decomposition rate. Marcasite had a substantially higher i decomposition rate than pyrite. Microwave heating could promote the dissociation of marcasite and pyrite, compared with conventional heating. This was caused by special volumetric heating during microwave exposure that may induce local overheating or improve the interactions between the high dielectric loss minerals and the leaching solution. Kinetic investigations show that the decomposition of both the minerals in a nitric acid medium is controlled by chemical reactions on the surfaces of particles. The decomposition is a second order reaction with respect to nitric acid concentration. Less than 5- 7% of the decomposed sulphur was transformed into elemental sulphur during the leaching of both the minerals

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