Novel Reactive Anode for Electrochemical Extraction of Rare Earth Metals from Rare Earth Oxides
- Organization:
- The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
- Pages:
- 6
- File Size:
- 734 KB
- Publication Date:
- Mar 1, 2017
Abstract
Electrolytic production of metallic neodymium is carried out in fused fluoride salts containing neodymium oxide. Two major challenges pertaining to neodymium production are (a) low oxide solubility and (b) possible fluorine gas evolution. A novel iron-based reactive anode is proposed and tested to overcome fluorine gas evolution during electrolysis of neodymium oxide in molten fluoride salts.
Citation
APA: (2017) Novel Reactive Anode for Electrochemical Extraction of Rare Earth Metals from Rare Earth Oxides
MLA: Novel Reactive Anode for Electrochemical Extraction of Rare Earth Metals from Rare Earth Oxides. The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 2017.