본 연구에서는 국산 99.7%순도의 수산화알루미늄을 대상으로 미량원소로 함유되어 있는 Na, Ca및 Fe의 제거실험을 수행하였다. 용출액으로는 유기산인 oxalic acid와 citric acid를 사용하였으며 수산화알루미늄은 초기 입도가 서로 다른 2종류의 시료를 사용하였다. 수산화알루미늄의 미립화를 위해 ball mill을 사용하여 미분쇄 실험을 수행하였으며, 용출조건에 따른 미량원소의 용출특성을 조사하였다. 실험결과 0.1$sim$1.0mole/l 농도범위에서 oxalic acid에 의한 원소 용출율이 citric acid보다 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 유기산 농도가 증가할수록 또한 반응온도가 증가할수록 원소의 용출율은 증가하였다. 미분쇄 공정시 순수한 물에 의한 Na의 용출율은 약 45%에 달해 aluminum hydroxide에 함유된 Na성분의 상당 부분은 수용성 화합물인 것으로 확인되었다.
The removal of minor elements such as Na, Ca and Fe has been performed from domestic aluminum hydroxide of 99.7% purity with organic acids. Oxalic and citric acid were used as the leaching agent, respectively and aluminum hydroxides of different particle size were also employed for the purification with organic acid leaching. Fine grinding of aluminum hydroxide has been tested using ball mills and leaching characteristics of each element have also been examined in terms of leaching parameters such as temperature, acid concentration, and solid density. As a result, it was found that oxalic acid showed higher leaching efficiency than citric acid in the concentration range of 0.1 to 1.0 mole/l and leaching amount of each element was also increased with the acid concentration and reaction temperature. It was observed that about 45% of Na was leached out during ball milling process which implied that the majority of Na contained in aluminum hydroxide was water soluble compound.
