SME Georgia Section Members and Guests:
Our next meeting is on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
Time: Mar 18, 2021
Business: 6:15-6:30 PM
Lecture: 6:30 PM Eastern Time
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Meeting ID: 872 2030 0085
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Meeting ID: 872 2030 0085
Timothy M. Dittrich - Concentrating Rare Earth Elements From Coal Fly Ash Leachates Using Ligand-Associated Organosilica Media
Rare earth elements (REEs) have many critical uses in advanced technology and the lack of a reliable domestic supply has been identified by the U.S. DOE as a vulnerability to U.S. economic security. Our research focuses on developing an economical process for extracting REEs from coal fly ash by coupling a hydrothermal extraction process with the engineering of a ligand-associated media for concentrating REEs from the extraction liquid. We will first discuss the process of collecting and characterizing coal fly ash feedstock from coal-fired power plants near Detroit, MI by advanced characterization techniques (e.g., complete digestions, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, and x-ray fluorescence).
Timothy M. Dittrich, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Wayne State University
5050 Anthony Wayne Dr., Room 2164
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-3627
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