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Title:
希土類金属の製造方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP6502805
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing rare earth metal capable of separating each rare earth element from a treatment material such as a rare earth magnet at high purity and also recovering each rare earth element at low power.SOLUTION: Provided is a method for producing rare earth metal comprising: an oxide formation step where an electrode consisting of a treatment material in which at least a part includes a rare earth element(s) and a gas electrode are arranged in a molten salt, and an oxygen gas-containing gas is fed to the gas electrode, and, by the rare earth element(s) and oxygen gas dissolution reaction into the molten salt, electric energy is generated, and further, the oxide of the above rare earth element(s) is formed; and a rare earth element recovery step where the rare earth element(s) is recovered from the oxide of the above rare earth element(s).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Inventors:
Tomoyuki Awazu
Mitsutaka Tsubokura
Masatoshi Mashima
Hirokazu Konishi
Application Number:
JP2015179896A
Publication Date:
April 17, 2019
Filing Date:
September 11, 2015
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
National University Corporation Osaka University
International Classes:
C22B59/00; C22B3/26; C22B7/00; C25C3/34
Domestic Patent References:
JP2013117063A
JP2013147731A
JP63266086A
JP2015218371A
JP2015183225A
Foreign References:
US20140291161
CN103906861A
WO2013022020A1
US20140166501
CN103732801A
US4966661
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masami Sakai
Norio Kagami
Yoshikuni Suda