Removal and Recovery of Nickel Ion from Wastewater of Electroless Plating by Reduction Crystallization

Ken Horikawa; Izumi Hirasawa

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.17, No.6, 629-632, November, 2000

DOI10.1007/BF02699108 Export Citation

Removal and Recovery of Nickel Ion from Wastewater of Electroless Plating by Reduction Crystallization

Ken Horikawa, and Izumi Hirasawa^{1, †}

Nippon Chemical Industrial Co. Ltd., 9-11-1 Kameido, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-8515, Japan
¹Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

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Wastewater treatment after electroless nickel plating runs has been known to be difficult and this has been a subject of worldwide concern. Discarding wastewater of electroless nickel plating into sea was prohibited under the London Dumping Treaty since 1996. We have studied on recovering nickel from wastewater by reduction crystallization. In this study, the characteristics of nickel ion removal and recovery were investigated in the process of reduction crystallization using a laboratory scale batch crystallizer (500 ml), in order to propose a new process for wastewater treatment from nickel plating. In the reduction crystallization, which can use hypophosphite ion as a reducing agent for nickel ion in the wastewater, nickel ion could be recovered as a form of nickel metal by seeding nickel powder having large specific surface area.

Keywords:Electroless Plating;Reduction Crystallization;Nickel Powder;Reducing Agent

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[Referenced By]

[1] Atarashi Y, Mekki Gijutsu Kyokai, 1 (1995)

[2] Hayashi T, Matsuoka M, Nawahune H, Nikkan Kogyou Shinbunsha, 1, 20 (1994)

[3] Hirasawa I, "Environmental Crystallization in the Waste Water Treatment," The 8th APCChE Congress in Korea, 1565 (1999)

[4] Horikawa K, Hirasawa I, "Removal and Recovery of Nickel Ion from the Wastewater of Electroless Plating by Reduction Crystallization," 5th International Symposium on Separation Technology between Korea and Japan, 359 (1999)

[5] Hoshino Y, Zenkoku Mekki Kogyou Kumiai Rengokai, 68 (1997)

[6] Izawa T, Kudo K, Araki K, Furui T, Japan Patent, 7-206447 (1995)

[7] Izawa T, Kudo K, Kani Y, Araki K, Kato T, Furui T, Japan Patent, 7-34604 (1996)

[8] Kanbe T, "Electroless Plating," Maki Syoten, 13 (1984)

[9] Kanbe T, "Electroless Plating Technology," Extensive Technology Service Center Co. Ltd., 9 (1986)

[10] Kanbe T, The Autumn Seminar on the Surface Finishing Sociery of Japan, 92 (1992)

[11] Mallory GO, Lloyd VA, Plat. Surf. Finish., 72(8), 64 (1985)

[12] Mallory GO, Lloyd VA, Plat. Surf. Finish., 72(9), 52 (1985)

[13] Tashiro K, J. Surf. Finishing Soc. Jpn., 50, 140 (1999)