Autoclave dissolution of platinum metals in hydrochloric acid oxidizing media

The paper provides the results obtained in the study of the features of metallic platinum, rhodium and iridium dissolution in hydrochloric acid solutions under hydrothermal autoclave conditions. Hydrogen peroxide was used as an oxidizing agent. Solid and liquid phases were brought into contact after reaching a predetermined temperature, which is critically important in the study of rhodium black and platinum plate dissolution kinetics due to the high rates of these processes. The concentrations of metals in solutions were determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The forms of rhodium, iridium, and platinum chlorocomplexes in solutions were determined using the spectrophotometric method. As a result of the experiments, the conditions of platinum plate and rhodium quantitative dissolution (in the form of affined powder and a plate) were determined and it was shown that at 210 °C in 6M hydrochloric acid as a medium with the addition of 5 vol.% hydrogen peroxide, iridium taken in the form of affined powder went into the solution by 50 % within more than 50 h, while the platinum plate dissolved completely at 130 °C in about 120 min. Kinetic data analysis using the shrinking core model showed that rhodium black and affined rhodium and iridium powders dissolve under autoclave conditions in a kinetic mode. The results obtained can be used both in analytical chemistry for the quantitative determination of inert platinum metals and in refining production to improve the technology for processing raw materials containing platinum group metals (PGMs) and to optimize approaches to the synthesis of pure chlorocomplex compounds of PGMs.

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