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Reprocessing method of manganous waste slags

Reprocessing method of manganous waste slags
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FIELD: metallurgy.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the ferrous metallurgy field, particularly to reprocessing of waste slags from manufacturing of manganese and siliceous ferroalloys for extraction from it of manganese and siliceous ferroalloys of high grade by content of phosphorus. In method there are mixed manganous waste slags and slag from manufacturing of ferrosilicon and is implemented reduction of oxides of manganese and silicon carbide, presenting in slag from manufacturing of ferrosilicon, herewith amount of silicon carbide in mixture of slags for 10-50% more than it is required by stoichiometry for total reduction of manganous oxide.

EFFECT: invention provides achievement of total extraction of manganese into desired product, usage in the capacity of reducer of silicon carbide, contained in waste slag of ferrosilicon and also receiving of specified compound with low content of carbon and phosphorus.

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The invention relates to the field of ferrous metallurgy, in particular to the recycling dump slag from the production of manganese and silicon ferroalloys with the purpose of extraction of manganese and get Ferroalloy high quality (phosphorus).

Every year the world produces about 650 million tons of slag from the production of carbon ferromanganese, 550-600 million tons of slag from the production of silicomanganese, 100-150 million tons of slag from the smelting of medium-carbon ferromanganese and about 100-150 million tons of slag from the smelting of ferrosilicon.

The main consumers of the dump slag from the production of manganese ferroalloys are building organizations that process it on gravel, sand, slag wool, Portland cement, cast products. With these toxins is lost up to 20% of the manganese in the smelting of silicon manganese and up to 50% of the manganese in the production of manganese metal. Table 1 shows the chemical compositions of the slag dump from the production of manganese ferroalloys and ferrosilicon.

Table 1
Slag from the production: Content, wt.%*
The oxide of manganese Duobus the silicon Aluminium oxide Calcium oxide Magnesium oxide Iron oxide Silicon carbide
of silico-manganese 14-18 46-52 8-11 10-15 4-6 0,2-0,5 -
manganese metal 20-24 26-30 5-8 40-46 4-6 of 0.1-0.3 -
carbon ferromanganese 10-14 20-26 6-8 35-40 3-5 0,3-0,5 -
ferrosilicon - 35-40 20-25 21-26 1,5-2,0 2,5-4,0 10-16
* FOS is ora all manganese slags below 0,009%

Feature of all compositions are presented in table dump slag is:

a very low concentration of phosphorus (0,005-0,009%), due to a high reduction potential in the production of ferroalloys;

the presence of slag ferrosilicon silicon carbide, which can be used as an active reducing agent for the oxide of manganese;

- availability of all compositions of slags from 3 to 8% Korolkov metal, which will be fully automatic alloy, providing high output.

A method of refining slag melt, wherein the melt specify corrective additive in the form of calcium oxide and lead him basicity before the formation of dicalcium silicate, which destroys itself when cooled, and released the Regulus of metals extracted from the resulting powder by using magnetic separation.

(Patent RF №2104977, IPC8SW 5/06, priority from 05.07.96,, publ. 20.02.98,, bull. No. 5.)

The disadvantages of this method of processing slag dump are:

- the necessity of using a separate electric furnace, in which the melt is brought to the desired composition;

- use advanced physical methods in the form of magnetic separation to separate Korolkov metal from slag;

the target product is extracted only confused the king and, and high concentrations leading element in the slag in the form of oxide compounds remain.

There is also known a method of recovering manganese from slag from the production of carbon ferromanganese, providing an additive to the melt of calcium oxide to increase its basicity to 1.1-1.25 and processing it in the bucket silicon manganese, taken in the grain size of 5-15 mm For stirring of the melt used blowing an inert gas through a porous plug at the bottom of the bucket.

(Nippon Kokan K.K. Application No. 61-157645, Japan, Appl. 29.12.84, No. 59-276014, publ. 17.01.86,, MPK822 In 47/00.)

The disadvantages of this method are:

low yield of metal;

- use as a reductant specially produced silicomanganese;

- the complexity of the process because of the need to purge melts.

The closest in technical essence and the achieved effect is a method of processing dump slag manganese metal and commodity of silico-manganese in the electric furnace, by restoring present in the oxides of manganese of solid carbon. The result is a carbon ferromanganese or trademarks silicomanganese with low phosphorous content. The best scores were obtained in the smelting of silico-manganese from slag mixture trademarks of silicon manganese and metallicheskaya, taken in equal proportions. Extraction of manganese was increased by 20-25%, the residual concentration of manganese oxide in the slag does not exceed 5%. Information about the industrial use of the known method of processing slag dump is not available.

(VI Dovgopol. The use of slag ferrous metallurgy, M.: metallurgy, 1978, str prototype.)

The disadvantages of this method of processing slag dump is:

problems of introduction of solid carbon (coke) in the furnace because of its low density and poor wettability of the melt;

- high specific energy consumption;

- the difficulty of determining the ratio between the components of the mixture used in the liquid state;

- high multiplicity final slag.

The technical result of the invention is:

- achieving the most complete extraction of manganese in the target product;

- use as a reductant silicon carbide contained in atalina the ferrosilicon slag;

- the possibility of obtaining alloys particular composition with a low content of carbon and phosphorus;

- the beneficial use of silicon slag in the smelting of ferrosilicon silicomanganese.

This technical result is achieved in that in the method for processing dump slag from the production of manganese ferroalloys, including their draw is people, mix, download in the electric furnace, melting and release of smelting products, according to the invention the recovery of manganese oxides from dumping toxins are present in the slag from the production of ferrosilicon silicon carbide, taken by 10-50% more than required by stoichiometry for complete restoration of the oxide of manganese.

Processing unprocessed slag includes the recovery furnace manganese oxides in a mixture of four slag from the production of silicon manganese, manganese metal, ferromanganese and ferrosilicon, taken in a certain ratio, ensuring complete restoration of a driving element and receiving a given composition of the metal that meets the requirements of the standard. The reducing agent is silicon carbide slag ferrosilicon. Processing of toxins are in rudovosstanoviteljnoj furnaces. The production of metal and slag is carried out in a cascade set the buckets. The temperature of the melt on the issue depending on the composition of the melted alloy ranges from 1430 to 1570°C.

The essence of the invention lies in the fact that the basis of the proposed method are the following chemical reaction:

213 g - 40 g - 165 g - 60 g

Calculations show that for the full recovery of 213 g of manganese oxide will be required by the stoichiometry of only 40 g of silicon carbide. If you goto the CSO product you can get metal manganese (165 g) and slag (60 g).

If the processing method is to dump toxins lead to excess in the mixture of reducing agent (SiC), the response will look as follows:

71 g - 40 g - 83 g - 28 g

The result of this reaction will be to actively recover manganese and dissolve the excess silicon. This excess silicon ensures a more complete transition of manganese in the alloy and the receipt of silico-manganese with a given silicon content.

Use in the charge connection in the form of silicon carbide allows for active recovery processes in a wide temperature range (at low temperatures the main role as a reductant plays silicon, and high - carbon).

With an excess of silicon carbide in the mixture below 10% is difficult to obtain a high technical and economic indicators of the process, and if an excess of silicon carbide is greater than 50%, i.e. the probability of obtaining silicomanganese, do not meet the state standard on the silicon content.

Below are examples of use of the invention does not exclude other in the scope of the claims.

Example 1.

In the electric resistance furnace tammana) were loaded crucible and furnace included. Upon reaching the temperature in the furnace 1500-1550°C crucible was loaded a mixture of toxins. Table 2 presents the chemical compositions used manganese is lacquers. The melting of the entire mixture melts stood for 10-12 minutes until the termination of allocation of bubbles; the crucible was taken out and cooled in air. Separately weighed slag and metal and determined their chemical composition. In table 3 and 4 presents the experimental results.

The experimental results showed that contained in the slag ferrosilicon silicon carbide allows to increase throughout recovery of manganese on 15-32%. When this happens disposal Korolkov metal contained in dumping slag. Experiments 1 and 2 held on the charge - method prototype. Therefore, the results of the growth in extraction of manganese taken for zero. In dumping the slag content of the oxide of manganese is not more than 2.5%.

Table 2
Slag Content, %
IGOs SiO2 CaO MgO Al2O3 P2O5 FeO Goldcrests metal
Of silico-manganese 14,63 50,2 12,48 9,12 4,13 0,009 0,55 4,8
Ferromanganese 11,88 22,8 38,4 4,4 7,8 0,007 0,75 5,1
Manganese metal 22,15 26,1 45,8 3,3 2,4 0,009 0,35 7,1

phosphorus
Table 4
№ p/p The composition of the metal, % The weight of the metal, g The weight of the slag, g The increase in the extraction of manganese, % Note
manganese silicon carbon
1* 84,5 3,5 6,5 0,05 32,56 was 155.3 ±0 Prototype method
2* 78,5 17,4 2,4 0,04 36,06 138,2 ±0 Prototype method
3 80,0 17,8 1,2 0,03 40,4 120,4 19,7
4 86,3 4,3 3,7 traces 42,5 105,8 21,8
5 87,4 7,6 4,0 0,03 43,8 103,1 23,4
6 79,0 16,9 1,6 0,04 to 45.4 100,0 20,9
7 80,9 17,4 1,3 traces 46,1 98,0 26,6
8 80,3 18,4 0,9 0,04 48,0 96,0 30,5
9 76,3 22,4 0,8 traces 48,0 96,0 of 31.8
10 74,0 the 17.3 2,7 0,06 40,0 of 120.5 5,5
11 76,9 16,9 2,9 0,06 36,0 135,6 -
* experiments conducted according to the method prototype

Example 2.

In electric arc furnace with transformer capacity of 120 kVA downloaded the mixture of toxins. Chemical compositions of the slag used is presented in table 2. The mixture consisted kg:

- of silico-manganese slag - 15,

the ferromanganese slag - 4,

- slag manganese metal - 1,

- ferrosilicon slag - 5,5.

Melting led to constant charge continuous process with periodic release smelting products. Made 8 releases.

The average composition of the metal, wt.%:

Mn Si Fe P
84,6 17,9 3,75 0,05 0,15

The average composition of the slag, wt.%:

MnO SiO2 CaO Al2O3 MgO P2O5
3,84 46,64 33,18 8,96 7,12 traces

Spent the balance of the bottoms showed that the alloy has moved additionally manganese on average from 23 to 35%. The ratio of slag amounted to 2.1.

The proposed method can be implemented on Ferroalloy plants that produce manganese ferroalloys.

The method of processing the mn containing slag dump, including crushing, mixing, download in the electric furnace, melting, recovery of manganese oxides and products of melt, characterized in that the mixed mn containing final slag and slag from the production of ferrosilicon and carry out the recovery of oxides of manganese, silicon carbide present in the slag from the production of ferrosilicon, the content of the carb is Yes silicon in the mixture of slag by 10-50% greater than the amount required by stoichiometry for complete recovery of manganese oxide.

 

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