Objective
The RTD project Recycling and Valorisation of Stainless Steel Slags aims at the valorisation of stainless steel slag which were until recently dumped as waste. Since 1996 the prime SME proposer, i.e. the recycling firm TRC, strives to process these slags in order: - to recover the valuable non ferro metals, and - to use them as a secondary material in construction. To optimise the valuable metals recovery and the rate of recycling of the slag as secondary material the RTD project aims at the development of an adequate mechanical recycling technique. The mechanical recycling with crushing and sieving in combination with magnetic and density separations should allow for a separation into 3 fractions, i.e.: - a metal containing slag, - a non metal containing slag, and - an intermediate slag fraction. The metal containing slag, which contains up to 70% of NiCr and which therefore is a product with a high value, can be returned to the stainless steel production. The non metal containing slag has to fulfil the technical and environmental requirements to allow its use as a secondary material in the construction industry. Recuperation of the intermediate fraction of the slag requires most probably a metallurgical process based upon direct plasma technology which will be developed in this project. The applications of the processed stainless steel slag as a secondary material in construction will be extensively investigated in both road construction (lean concrete, cement stabilised sand, asphalt) and concrete applications. This fraction corresponds to the bulk of the material available. Besides technical aspects, environmental characteristics, essential for the use as a secondary material, will be investigated. A huge problem for TRC is actually the high maintenance costs associated with the processing of the slag due to the presence of metallic particles (small particles up to big blocs of NiCr) that cause frequent break downs and consequently require important repair of the crushing and sieving installation. Improved separation using magnetic and density based techniques should allow to reduce the maintenance cost with 20 %.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- natural sciences physical sciences plasma physics
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Coordinator
3800 Sint-Truiden
Belgium
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