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) |
The Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant developed the technology of processing of zinc-, lead- and tin-containing copper industry dusts, including the following stages:
-Pyrometallurgical stage: calcinations with addition of sulphidizer, flux and reducing agent to the product, where lead is removed from the product with transfer in processed sublimates, while zinc and tin stay in cinders;
- Hydrometallurgical stage: high-temperature leaching of cinder, where zinc, iron, copper, etc. are extracted in solution during the obtainment of tin-concentrating solid residue.
Here we consider the hydrometallurgical stage of obtaining of tin-containing concentrate from cinder with low content of lead (less than 1%).
Here is shown the low extraction of zinc in solution and absence of selective separation of tin and lead with acid sulfuric-acid dust leaching without application of the pyrometallurgical stage.
There-stage leaching (similar to the technology of hydrometallurgical processing of Waelz-oxides, existing in Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant) and one-stage high-temperature leaching were researched for obtaining cinder. Three-stage product leaching is low-efficient, because it requires a lot of equipment and does not provide the required concentration of tin in solid residue.
About 98% of zinc contained in cinder, and more than 95% or copper and iron is transferred in solution during the high-temperature product leaching by waste zinc electrolytes with addition of sulfuric acid (t= 80-90°C, concentration of H2/SO4 is 160-170g/dm3). The obtained solution is required for application in the technological cycle of the zinc plant. Solid residue contains 14-21% of tin, which allows its use at tin enterprises.