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Content archived on 2019-03-12

TREATMENT OF RESIDUES AND PRECIPITATES OF HYDROMET ZINC WINNING BY D C ELECTRIC SMELTING

Objective

METAL RECOVERY (AG, PB, ZN) FROM WASTE MATERIALS, AND PRODUCTION OF DISPOSABLE RESIDUES.

THIS IS A JOINT PROJECT WITH RWTH AACHEN (004 D) AND BUDELCO (018 NL)

THE RERSEARCH WORK CONSISTS OF SEVERAL CONSECUTIVE STEPS :

1) SAMPLE PREPARATION E.G.JAROSITE PB-AG-RESIDUE, MIXTURE OF BOTH, NEUTRALIZATION RESIDUE (BY BUDELCO AND PREUSSAG),

2) EVALUATION OF PROPERTIES OF FEED MATERIALS (BY BUDELCO,PREUSSAG AND RWTH),

A. PHASES
B. COMPOSITION
C.PARTICLE SIZE
D.HUMIDITY
E.SO4-DISSOCIATION

3) PREPARATION OF THE FEED FOR SMELTING (BY RWTH)

A. PELLETIZING WITH AND WITHOUT CARBON/LIME
B. DRYING
C. CALCINING AND
D. PRE-REDUCTION

4) SMELTING OF PELLETS (GREEN,CALCINED,PRE-REDUCED, WITH AND WITHOUT CARBON) IN 5 AND 200 KG BATCHES (BY RWTH)

5) PRODUCT ANALYSIS OF METAL, MATTE, SLAG AND FLUE DUSTS (BY BUDELCO, PREUSSAG, RWTH)

6) JOINT EVALUATION OF THE ECONOMICS FOR A CHOSEN PROCESSING (BY BUDELCO, PREUSSAG, RWTH).

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Coordinator

Preussag AG Metall
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Address
Rammelsberger Straße 2
38640 Goslar
Germany

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