Acid leaching of manganiferous ores by sucrose: Kinetic modelling and related statistical analysis

Abstract This work reports the kinetic study of a manganiferous ore leaching in acid media by sucrose as reducing agent. A shrinking core model with variable activation energy was found to successfully fit experimental data of manganese extraction yields vs leaching time. This model finds a physical confirmation both in the complex reactions that take place during manganese leaching and the different reactivity and accessibility of the mineralogical forms present in the ores. A non linear regression analysis has been performed in order to estimate the adjustable model parameters and a statistical analysis has also been carried out in order to evaluate the significativity of the estimated values.

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