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Engineering, 2012, 4, 723-727 /10.4236/eng.2012.411093 Published Online November 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/eng) Effect of Temperature and the Organic Phase Content on the Stripping of Mn(II) from a D2EPHA-KEROSENE Pseudo-Emulsion Using a Sulfuric Acid Aqueous Solution Jaime Cristobal Rojas-Montes, Roberto Pérez-Garibay, Alejandro Uribe-Salas, Fabiola Nava-Alonso Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Saltillo, Ramos Arizpe, México Email: jaime.rojas@.mx Received August 31, 2012; revised September 31, 2012; accepted October 10, 2012 ABSTRACT There are few studies oriented to analyze the interaction between the variables of the stripping process of actual leach- ing solutions. The aim of this work was to study the effect of temperature and the percent of organic phase in the strip- ping pseudo-emulsion (D2EPHA and kerosene) on the manganese stripping process. Other studied variables were the acid concentration (H SO ) in the aqueous phase, the percent of the organic phase in the pseudo-emulsion and the num- 2 4 ber of stripping stages. This information may be of interest to countries with radical temperature variations. It was dis- covered that in the range of 10˚C to 50˚C, temperature improves the depletion of manganese from the D2EPHA. Addi- tionally, the percent of the organic phase should be less than 90% by volume of the pseudo-emulsion to favour the manganese exchange. Moreover, the H2SO4 concentration in the aqueous phase should be less than 1 M to avoid chemical instability of the organic phase. Keywords: Manganese Solvent Extraction; Manganese Stripping; Manganese; Pyrolusite 1. Introduction [3-5]. Stripping manganese from solvent-extr