Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome video

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    • Meet the teacher

    • Learning objectives

    • What do you want to learn?

    • Have a look at what other students want to learn

    • Present yourself to your classmates

    • Become familiar with the learning platform

    • Good practices to use this course
  • 2

    What is ion exchange (IX)?

    • Definition ion exchange ("IX")

    • Application from daily life: Brita® filters

    • Working principle

    • Some definitions

    • Exercise: uptake efficiency

    • Application of IX in a (chromatography) column

    • Adsorption isotherms

    • Kinetics

    • Exercise instructions: Comparison SX and IX

    • Comparison SX and IX - Full screen multimedia
  • 3

    IX resins

    • Resin structure: polymer matrix

    • Resin structure: particle morphology

    • Resin structure: porosity

    • Types of functional groups: cation exchangers

    • Types of functional groups: anion exchangers

    • Exercise: capacity profiles for different resin types

    • Exercise: affinity order for different functional groups

    • Types of functional groups: an overview

    • Chelating resins

    • Exercise: cation exchange, anion exchange or chelating - Drag the structure to the correct column

    • Solution: cation exchange, anion exchange or chelating

    • Solvent-impregnated resins
  • 4

    IX process

    • Steps and operations

    • Packed-bed operation

    • Exercise: packed-bed IX column

    • Design: parameters

    • Design: breakthrough curves

    • Design: loading curves

    • Design: elution

    • Exercise: breakthrough curves

    • Exercise: loading curves

    • Exercise: breakthrough capacity

    • Semi-continuous processes

    • Semi-continuous processes

    • Continuous countercurrent ion-exchange (CCIX)

    • An example: carbon-in-pulp extraction of Au

    • Operational issues
  • 5

    Conclusion

    • Concluding video

    • What did you learn?

    • How can we improve this course?

    • Read what others want to improve on this course

    • Further readings
  • 6

    References

    • References
  • 7

    Evaluate this course

    • How this evaluation is structured

    • Evaluate this course

Instructor(s)

R&D Process Development Manager @ Umicore

Joris Roosen

Joris Roosen graduated as a MSc in Chemistry at the University of Leuven in 2008. He started a PhD at KU Leuven’s Chemistry Department on the recovery of critical metals from dilute aqueous waste streams by adsorption on functionalized biopolymers. After obtaining his PhD degree, he continued his research and lab coordination work in the same research group (under supervision of Prof. Dr. Koen Binnemans) for two more years. This allowed him to further build knowledge on the recycling and recovery of base and critical metals from secondary sources. Since 2018, Joris is employed at the R&D department of Umicore (Belgium) as a scientist in the Hydrometallurgy competence platform. There, it is his responsibility to coordinate several research projects, covering both the troubleshooting, debottlenecking, optimization and development of (new) hydrometallurgical processes. Joris has experience with the supervision of students and researchers. He likes to train coworkers and teach guest lectures at universities on different (hydrometallurgically related) topics.