Abstract:
To effectively separate and extract lithium from deep brine, the phase equilibria of the ternary system LiCl + CaCl
2 + H
2O was determined by isothermal dissolution method at 348.2 K. The composition and density of the equilibrium liquid phase were determined. The equilibrium solid phase composition was determined by Schreinemakers wet residue method and X−ray diffraction method. It is found that at 348.2 K, the ternary system belongs to simple type system without the formation of double salts, and the phase diagram is composed of one invariant point, two univariate curves and two crystallization phase regions (CaCl
2·2H
2O, LiCl·H
2O), which belongs to the hydrate type I phase diagram. By comparing the phase diagram of the ternary system at 273.2 K, 283.2 K, 298.2 K, 323.2 K and 348.2 K, it can be found that: CaCl
2·6H
2O, CaCl
2·4H
2O, LiCl·CaCl
2·5H
2O and LiCl·2H
2O exist in the system at 273.2 K and 283.2 K, and the crystallization phase region of the double salt LiCl·CaCl
2·5H
2O increases with the temperature increasing, while the crystallization phase regions of the single salts CaCl
2·6H
2O, CaCl
2·4H
2O and LiCl·2H
2O all decrease. When the temperature changes from 283.2 K to 298.2 K, the crystallization phase regions of LiCl·CaCl
2·5H
2O and CaCl
2·4H
2O increase and the crystallization phase region of CaCl
2·6H
2O decreases, meanwhile the crystalline phase of lithium chloride changes from LiCl·2H
2O to LiCl·H
2O. When the temperature changes from 298.2 K to 323.2 K, the crystalline form of calcium chloride changes from CaCl
2·6H
2O and CaCl
2·4H
2O to CaCl
2·2H
2O, and the double salt LiCl·CaCl
2·5H
2O disappears. When the temperature changes from 323.2 K to 348.2 K, the crystallization phase region of CaCl
2·2H
2O increases and that of LiCl·H
2O decreases. The results show that the interaction between lithium and calcium ions is simple and there is only single salt crystal at higher temperature, which is conducive to the separation and extraction of lithium from the chloride type brine coexistence with lithium and calcium.