Editors: | F. Kongoli, S.V. Alexandrovich, D.V. Grigorievich, L.L. Igoryevich, I. Startsev, T.A. Vladimirovich |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2019 |
Pages: | 193 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-989820-03-2 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
Gas cleaning dusts, forming in ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, have a high content of zinc, lead, copper and other components. These metals may be extracted from steel electrosmelting dust and copper smelting dust for matte into the intermediate products for their production. In the Russian Federation (RF), steel electrosmelting dusts, containing 30% or more of zinc [1], began to be recycled only in recent years [2]. Millions of such dusts disposal tonnes have been accumulated. Copper smelting dust for matte contains 10-25% of zinc and 10-30% of lead that makes it perspective for non-ferrous metals recovery [3]. The technological flowsheets of metallurgical dusts processing of steel and copper production are given in this work at the conditions of Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, PJSC. The main flowsheet with intermediate products obtaining for zinc, lead and iron production, as well as an auxiliary flowsheet with zinc powder and lead fumes production are presented for steel electrosmelting dust. Both flowsheets are presented for coper smelting dust: a functional flowsheet with two pyrometallurgical stages with intermediate products obtaining for zinc, lead, tin and copper production and a developed flowsheet with one pyrometallurgical stage. The valuable components extraction from wastes of steel and copper production contributes to increase the economic and ecological efficiency of production in the nonferrous-metals industry by means of raw materials economy and implication in recycling of resulting and non-utilizable wastes.