The Rare Earth Elements: An Introduction
暫譯: 稀土元素:入門指南

Voncken, J. H. L.

商品描述

This book deals with the rare earth elements (REE), which are a series of 17 transition metals: scandium, yttrium and the lanthanide series of elements (lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium).

They are relatively unknown to the wider public, despite their numerous applications and their critical role in many high-tech applications, such as high-temperature superconductors, phosphors (for energy-saving lamps, flat-screen monitors and flat-screen televisions), rechargeable batteries (household and automotive), very strong permanent magnets (used for instance in wind turbines and hard-disk drives), or even in a medical MRI application.

This book describes the history of their discovery, the major REE ore minerals and the major ore deposits that are presently being exploited (or are planned to be exploited in the very near future), the physical and chemical properties of REEs, the mineral processing of REE concentrates and their extractive metallurgy, the applications of these elements, their economic aspects and the influential economical role of China, and finally the recycling of the REE, which is an emerging field.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討稀土元素(REE),這是一系列17種過渡金屬:鈧(scandium)、釔(yttrium)以及鑭系元素(lanthanide series),包括鈧(lanthanum)、鉺(cerium)、鉬(praseodymium)、釹(neodymium)、鈷(promethium)、釤(samarium)、歐(europium)、釹(gadolinium)、鋱(terbium)、鉭(dysprosium)、鉴(holmium)、銪(erbium)、釹(thulium)、鉺(ytterbium)和鋥(lutetium)。

儘管它們在許多高科技應用中扮演著關鍵角色,如高溫超導體、磷光體(用於節能燈、平面顯示器和平面電視)、可充電電池(家庭和汽車用)、非常強的永久磁鐵(例如用於風力發電機和硬碟驅動器),甚至在醫療MRI應用中,這些元素對於更廣泛的公眾來說仍然相對不為人知。

本書描述了它們的發現歷史、主要的稀土礦物及目前正在開採(或計劃在不久的將來開採)的主要礦床、稀土元素的物理和化學性質、稀土濃縮物的礦物加工及其萃取冶金、這些元素的應用、它們的經濟方面及中國的影響力經濟角色,最後還探討了稀土元素的回收,這是一個新興領域。

作者簡介

Jack Voncken (1959) studied Geology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In 1984 he passed his "Doctoraal Examen" (equivalent to an MSc) in Geology with a major in (Igneous) Petrology and minors in Exploration Geochemistry and Economic Geology. After graduating he conducted PhD research, also at Utrecht University, on the synthesis, characterization and crystallography of two rare ammonium-aluminum-silicates (buddingtonite, NH4AlSi3O8, and tobelite, NH4Al2Si3AlO10(OH)2) and their Rb-and Cs-analogues. He obtained his PhD in 1990 at Utrecht University with a thesis entitled "Silicates with Incorporation of NH4+, Rb+ or Cs+ ". Between 1988 and 1990, he was employed at Twente University of Technology, Enschede, the Netherlands, where at the Inorganic Materials Science section of the Faculty of Chemical Technology he developed a method for measuring drying stresses in thin drying gel coatings. In 1990 he joined Delft University of Technology. He started at the Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, in the Raw Materials Technology (later called Resource Engineering) section, as an assistant professor for Mineralogical Aspects of Raw Materials. From 2006 until 2011, after the discontinuation of the Resource Engineering section, he worked in the Applied Geology section. After the re-establishment of the Resource Engineering section in 2011, he returned to that group, again as an assistant professor. The Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering merged with the Faculty of Civil Engineering in 2007 to form the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Jack Voncken's specialties lie in Economic Geology, in Ore Minerals and Industrial Minerals, and in analytical techniques and characterization techniques for minerals and rocks. Given his interest in Ores and Industrial Minerals, he has also focused on Rare Earth Elements since 2009.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

傑克·馮肯(Jack Voncken,1959年)在荷蘭烏特勒支大學學習地質學。1984年,他以主修(火成)岩石學及輔修勘探地球化學和經濟地質學的背景,通過了相當於碩士學位的「博士考試」(Doctoraal Examen)。畢業後,他在烏特勒支大學進行博士研究,研究兩種稀有的鋁銨矽酸鹽(buddingtonite,NH4AlSi3O8,和 tobelite,NH4Al2Si3AlO10(OH)2)及其銫(Rb)和鉀(Cs)類似物的合成、特徵和結晶學。1990年,他在烏特勒支大學獲得博士學位,論文題目為「含有NH4+、Rb+或Cs+的矽酸鹽」。1988年至1990年間,他在荷蘭恩斯赫德的特溫特科技大學工作,於化學技術學院的無機材料科學部門開發了一種測量薄乾燥凝膠塗層乾燥應力的方法。1990年,他加入代爾夫特科技大學,最初在礦業與石油工程學院的原材料技術(後來稱為資源工程)部門擔任礦物原材料的助理教授。2006年至2011年,資源工程部門停辦後,他在應用地質學部門工作。2011年資源工程部門重新成立後,他再次回到該小組,繼續擔任助理教授。礦業與石油工程學院於2007年與土木工程學院合併,形成土木工程與地球科學學院。傑克·馮肯的專長在於經濟地質學、礦石礦物和工業礦物,以及礦物和岩石的分析技術和特徵技術。鑑於他對礦石和工業礦物的興趣,自2009年以來,他也專注於稀土元素的研究。