Abstract:
A ZINC OR ZINC/LEAD BLAST FURNACE IS OPERATED BY SELECTING AS FUEL LUMP CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL OF REDUCED REACTIVITY WITH CARFON DIOXIDE AT 1000*C.
Abstract:
A method for the recovery of zinc from zinc containing materials using a smelting apparatus for smelting a metalliferous feed material, wherein the smelting apparatus includes a smelting vessel, a smelt cyclone mounted on the smelting vessel and in connection with the inside of the smelting vessel and an off-gas duct connected to the smelt cyclone, and wherein the method includes the steps of: injecting the feed material with a carrier gas into the smelt cyclone, injecting an oxygen containing gas into the smelt cyclone, injecting coal with a carrier gas into the smelting vessel, injecting an oxygen containing gas into the smelting vessel, optionally injecting fluxes with a carrier gas into the smelting vessel, wherein the zinc containing materials are injected into the smelt cyclone and/or into the smelting vessel.
Abstract:
A method and recovering method of recovering zinc oxides and other metal oxides having an injection chamber where a mixture of natural gas and oxygen is formed and then ignited to form high temperature combustion gases of greater than 2000° C. with a high concentration of carbon monoxide. Then, the mixture is transported through a quiescent chamber to a feed chamber where the ignited high temperature combustion gases are mixed with finely divided material, including EAF dust. The mixture is transported to a reaction chamber, wherein zinc vapor and other metal vapors and molten slag particles are formed. The zinc vapor and other metal vapors are separated from the molten slag particles and transported to an insulated plenum. Zinc vapor and other metal vapors are mixed with air and become airborne zinc oxide and other metal oxides. The airborne zinc oxide and other metal oxides are collected.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for recovering and refining zinc from scrap metals having a high zinc content. The scrap metals are melted in a conventional furnace and introduced in a molten state into the distillation zone of the apparatus of the invention. The apparatus comprises an atmospherically sealed vertical column having a distillation zone and a communicating superposed fractionation zone. Arranged within the vertical column is a plurality of vertically spaced horizontally staggered trays constructed of a suitable refractory material. Molten material is continuously introduced into the apparatus through a metal seal and flows downwardly in a circuitous path over the trays disposed in the distillation zone. The metal in each tray is heated to temperatures sufficient to vaporize zinc by means of precisely controllable radiant heating elements located immediately above and below each tray. The zinc vapors rise through the distilling zone in countercurrent with the descending molten metal, pass through the factionating column where various impurities are removed, and then are directed into a condenser wherein they are condensed to metallic zinc of high purity.