Editors: | Kongoli F, Xueyi G, Shumskiy V, Kozlov P, Capiglia C, Silva AC, Turna T |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 350 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-50-8 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
PJSC Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant processes the dust of copper-smelting industry. Copper plant dust processing differs from EAF-dust processing by charge preparation. There is no need to separate tin from lead, so the finished product is lead concentrate.<br />The main detail of the technology is the introduction of two-stage Waelz process. Waelz process 1 for the whole separation of volatile (Zn, Pb, Sn) and non-volatile components (Fe, Cu). Waelz process 2 allows Waelz-oxide purification from harmful impurities (Cl, F, As) and separation of tin from the lead. The new technology has expanded resource base of non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy and improved the environmental situation in the regions. <br />New technologies implementation allowed:<br />- to recover more than 100 000 t of non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy wastes that were not processed before;<br />- to get more than 10 000 t of Zn, 4 000 t of Pb and tin in the form of lead and tin concentrates out of them and also excluding these metals form the raw material for ferrous metallurgy – Zn-containing slag and non-ferrous metallurgy – copper slag. <br />Decision of ecological issues:<br />- ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy wastes included into recycling with land areas rescue and the possibility not to pollute ground water with heavy metals;<br />- emissions reducing during Waelz-process from 10 mg/nm3 (project data) to 0.4÷0,7mg/m3;<br />- greenhouse gases emission reducing (carbon dioxide) for 2 mln m3 a year thanks to the usage of the improved construction of waste-heat boiler and stream production for zinc production technology.