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US20170183748A1
US20170183748A1 US15/325,281 US201515325281A US2017183748A1 US 20170183748 A1 US20170183748 A1 US 20170183748A1 US 201515325281 A US201515325281 A US 201515325281A US 2017183748 A1 US2017183748 A1 US 2017183748A1
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    • C22METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22BPRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
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    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C5/00Manufacture of carbon-steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel or cast steel or stainless steel
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    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21BMANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL
    • C21B5/00Making pig-iron in the blast furnace
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    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
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    • C21C5/52Manufacture of steel in electric furnaces
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
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    • C22METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22BPRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B7/00Working up raw materials other than ores, e.g. scrap, to produce non-ferrous metals and compounds thereof; Methods of a general interest or applied to the winning of more than two metals
    • C22B7/04Working-up slag
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    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C5/00Manufacture of carbon-steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel or cast steel or stainless steel
    • C21C5/28Manufacture of steel in the converter
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  • the invention relates to a process for treating iron silicate rock in which at least one constituent is at least partly removed from the iron silicate rock.
  • the invention also relates to an apparatus for processing treated iron silicate rock.
  • Iron silicate rock is at present virtually exclusively mechanically utilized.
  • the iron silicate rock is formed as slag in the smelting of copper ores.
  • the iron silicate rock is at present poured, for example, into molds and the moldings obtained are used for water frontage stabilization.
  • Granulation of the iron silicate rock is likewise already known.
  • Coarse granulated material is used, for example, as gravel for railroad embankments.
  • Finer granulated material is used in sandblasting.
  • iron silicate rock In terms of its proportions by weight, iron silicate rock consists essentially of iron, silicon and oxygen. Apart from the iron content, the iron silicate rock also contains secondary elements, for example copper, lead, arsenic, nickel and/or zinc.
  • the residual copper contents in these processes are about 0.4-0.8% and both processes are not designed for the metallurgical removal of further impurities.
  • the slag product formed (regardless of whether from a pyrometallurgical or hydrometallurgical process) has a problem: there is virtually no economical use and the available uses have little added value. The greatest part of the copper slag produced worldwide (about 15 million t/a) is therefore dumped.
  • This object is achieved according to the invention by at least one constituent other than iron being at least partly removed and by the treated iron silicate rock being used for the production of steel or pig iron.
  • a further object of the present invention is to construct an apparatus of the type mentioned at the outset in such a way that improved economics are achieved.
  • the apparatus being configured as a facility for producing pig iron or steel.
  • the metal content of copper slags has hitherto not been utilized (neither the nonferrous metals nor the iron content). At an amount of slag of 700 kt/a, this corresponds to an iron content of 280 kt/a.
  • the slag is already liquid and comparatively little additional energy therefore has to be employed in order to carry out the process.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the approach of removing the nonferrous metals from the slag product and using the remaining slag product (contains slag formers Si, Ca, Mg, Al and Fe as oxides) and raw material for producing pig iron or steel.
  • This downstream process allows the preceding process steps more flexibility in the processing of the copper raw materials.
  • the complexity of these raw materials in respect of their composition will increase further in future, due to the available copper ore deposits becoming poorer.
  • processing smelters receive a reimbursement from the mines for the processing of concentrates having increased contents
  • other important parameters are especially, for example, Zn and steel contaminants such as S and P.
  • the copper yield is naturally critical.
  • the newly developed process of the invention covers these challenges and pursues the objective of “zero-waste metallurgy”, i.e. all products formed in the production process are processed further.
  • FIG. 1 a schematic flow diagram of the process
  • FIG. 2 a table showing the specification of the starting material
  • FIG. 3 a table showing the specification for the slag product from the process.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic depiction for carrying out the individual process steps.
  • the process sequence in the deep reduction of iron silicate rock to give a fayalite or magnetite product as raw material for use in the iron and steel industry is depicted.
  • the slag from the primary copper process is preferably introduced in liquid form into the deep reduction process.
  • the liquid slag preferably has a temperature in the range from 1200° C. to 1350° C. A temperature value of about 1260° C. is typical.
  • the objective of the process is to separate the more noble metals of value present from the iron by selective reduction.
  • the iron remains, bound to silicon and/or to oxygen as fayalite product (Fe 2 SiO 4 ) or magnetite product (Fe 3 O 4 ), for further use as starting material in the iron and steel industry.
  • This product contains further oxides of Ca, Mg or Cr as impurities.
  • the specification for the product is shown in the table in FIG. 3 .
  • the residual sulfur present has to be removed from the system by introduction of oxygen in order for the subsequent reduction period to be able to be carried out efficiently.
  • the melt bath is covered and protected from further contact with oxygen by addition of not more than 7% of solid carbon, based on the amount of slag.
  • the CO/CO 2 ratio of the process atmosphere should be set so that an oxygen potential of 10 ⁇ 12 atm is not exceeded.
  • the volatile constituents of the slag vaporize and leave the process together with the offgas. In the course of the offgas treatment, these constituents are obtained in the form of their oxides as fly dust.
  • the fly dust obtained has a composition of about 40-60% of Zn, 10-20% of Pb and ⁇ 10% of As and can be used as raw material for zinc production, e.g. in the rolling process.
  • an amount of fly dust of about 20 000 t is to be expected.
  • the copper content after this process step is still about 0.2-0.3% of Cu.
  • carbon monoxide is introduced as reducing agent via flushing bricks arranged at the bottom.
  • the advantage of bottom flushing is the significantly lower gas velocity required compared to flushing by means of a lance. This leads to intensive mixing between slag, metal and gas phase. The reduction takes place at the gas/slag phase interface according to the reaction equation Cu 2 O+CO ⁇ 2Cu+CO 2 .
  • the metal droplets formed are very fine (max. 20 ⁇ m) and have to be separated from the slag phase by density separation in a calming zone.
  • the mineralogy of the slag product can be matched to the respective use. If the product is, for example, to be used directly in a blast furnace, the fayalite phase obtained is satisfactory. For introduction via the blast furnace charger, pretreatment in the sintering plant is necessary. The melting range of fayalite (about 1180°) is too low for this and would lead to problems in processing. It is therefore necessary to set the magnetite content in the finished product. This ratio can be adjusted according to the requirements of the customer by addition of a defined amount of oxygen. The oxygen can be added not only in the form of oxygen gas but also in the form of intermediates which serve as oxygen donors, e.g. Fe 2 O 3 dust from the steel industry.

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