Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12020664
Keywords
electric arc furnace dust; zinc oxide reduction; metal bath
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Funding
- FFG Austria COMET project
- Osterreichische Forschungsfoerdergesellschaft (FFG)
- Steirische Wirtschaftsfoerderungsgesellschaft 8SFG)
- Wirtschaft Burgenland GmbH
- Land Steiermark
- Land Burgenland
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Electric arc furnace dust is an important secondary resource for the zinc industry. The current method of multi-metal recycling through a metal bath has been found to increase reduction rates and effectively recover other metal elements.
Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) is an important secondary resource for the zinc industry. The most common process for its recycling is the pyro-metallurgical treatment in the Waelz process. However, this process focuses on the recycling of the zinc, whereas the recovery of other metals from the EAFD-such as iron and other alloying elements-is neglected. An up-to-date version of reprocessing can involve multi-metal recycling by means of a metal bath containing carbon. The use of a liquid iron alloy requires a higher processing temperature, which enables the reduction and melting of iron oxides as well as other compounds occurring in the dust. Furthermore, the Zn yield is higher and the reduction kinetics are faster than in the Waelz process. This paper is only focused on the zinc reduction in such a metal bath. In order to determine the influence of the carbon content in the molten metal on the reduction rate, experiments were carried out on the reduction behavior of zinc oxide using a synthetic slag. This slag, with a basicity B-2 = 1, was applied to an iron bath with varying carbon contents. (0.85%, 2.16%, 2.89%, and 4.15%) The decrease in the zinc oxide concentration was monitored, along with the reaction rates calculated from these data. It was found that the reaction rate increases with rising carbon content in the melt.
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