Determination of impurities in graphite using synchrotron radiation based X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

Ghosh, Madhusudan; Swain, K. K.; Devi, Pooja; Chavan, Trupti A.; Singh, Ashish; Tiwari, M. K.; Verma, Rakesh Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.07.025

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“…Graphite is hardly dissolved using the conventional acids digestion method even when combined with a temperature and pressure condition (Suzuki, Miyatani, and Yoshimoto 1993). Several methods have been attempted to determine the multi-element in graphite through chemical dissolution such as microwave-induced synchrotron radiation based X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (Ghosh et al 2017), microwave-induced combustion method with ICP-OES and ICP-MS (Mesko et al 2010) (Cruz et al 2015). However, this procedure takes a comparatively longer time to complete, and the high volume of concentrated acid is needed for a complete digestion (Hashitani et al 1986).…”

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Determination of Elements in Acid Leaching of Graphite Using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis

Fisli¹,

Mustika²,

Sudirman³

et al. 2019

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Graphite material is extremely undissolvable to be turned into chemical solutions, therefore sample preparation is a serious problem faced in the determination of elemental impurity content in a graphite material. In this work, The nondestructive approach of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) is applied to determine the concentration of multi-element in a graphite material, by employing both the forth floating process and the acid treatment method to the local Indonesian graphite. The sample was irradiated in the Rabbit system of G.A. Sywabessy Multi-Purpose Reactor at Serpong, Indonesia. The precision of the analysis was evaluated using certified reference materials which were obtained good performance with the most of concentration value in the range of 3 < zheta score < -3. Eleven elemental (Al, Sb, Co, Cu, La, Mn, Sc, Na, W, V, and Zn) concentration were determined in the forth floating process of the graphite. The Cu elemental is the most content with the value of 60,8 mg/kg or about 90% of total concentration content in graphite. Followed by the Sb content with a value of 5,5 mg/kg (about 8% of total impurities content in graphite). The remaining 2% includes the intermediate and the minor content of other impurity elements. After the acid treatment, the total concentration of impurities contained in the graphite material drastically decreases from 6.7% w/w to about 0,1; 0.6; and 0.59 % w/w for treatment employing the HF,  HNO3+H2SO4,and HF+HCl+H2SO4 acid reagent, respectively. Cu element makes the largest contribution to reduce the concentration of impurities in graphite which decreased from 60,675 mg/kg to 1,088 mg/kg; 925 mg/kg and 835 mg/kg for HF, HNO3+H2SO4 and HF+HCl+H2SO4 acid reagent, respectively. In addition, Sb element concentration dropped dramatically from 5,514 mg/kg to 93 mg/kg using HF reagents. The other trace elements (As, Ba, Ca, Ce, Eu, Fe, Mg, Sm, and Th) were also identified in the acid reagent treated graphite sample which are suspected to derivates from the impurity reagent and or from contamination during the sample preparation. The treated HF for graphite was obtained the low purity grades approach for nuclear graphite.

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