Efficient, safe method for decoppering copper refinery electrolyte

摘要

The present invention is directed toward a method for removing copper from solutions containing arsenic and antimony and in which the copper concentration in the solution is sufficiently low whereby arsine and stibine would normally be generated if the solution was subject to electrolysis. According to the practice of the present invention, copper is recovered from such solutions by contacting said solutions with a fuel fed catalytic porous structure whereby the copper is deposited on said structure without the reduction of the arsenic and antimony in said copper-containing solution to arsine and stibine.