TY - JOUR
T1 - The selective alkaline leaching of zinc oxide from Electric Arc Furnace dust pre-treated with calcium oxide
AU - Chairaksa-Fujimoto, Romchat
AU - Maruyama, Katsuya
AU - Miki, Takahiro
AU - Nagasaka, Tetsuya
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was financially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Basic Research A, contract No. 25249105 ) for 2013 to 2015 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) . The cooperation of Aichi Steel Corp. is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank the support provided by the Global COE Program “Materials Integration International Center of Education and Research, Tohoku University” , Steel Foundation for Environmental Protection Technology (SEPT) and the valuable comments from members of the research group of EAF dust treatment, The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ).
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PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4), one of the major forms of zinc in Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) dust, is very difficult to chemically dissolve in aqueous solutions. In our previous work, a pretreatment process referred to as "CaO treatment" was proposed as a key technology for transforming the ZnFe2O4 in EAF dust to ZnO and Ca2Fe2O5 without carbothermic reduction. Because this CaO treatment also enables the preferential removal of chloride, fluoride and heavy metals during heating with essentially no evaporation loss of zinc or iron, the CaO treated product, or "CaO treated dust", consists mainly of ZnO and Ca2Fe2O5, and contains no chloride, fluoride or heavy metals. Zinc leaching, which involves dissolving ZnO into either acidic or alkaline solutions, makes it possible to recover zinc from the CaO treated dust. In this study, the feasibility of the alkaline leaching of CaO treated dust was investigated using a NaOH solution for the selective leaching of zinc over iron and calcium, and the effect of temperature, reaction time, NaOH concentration and solid/liquid (S/L) ratio were examined. It was found that significantly more zinc was extracted from the CaO treated dust than the as-supplied raw dust by the NaOH solution. Nearly complete zinc extraction from the CaO treated dust was achieved without any notable dissolution of iron and calcium, which remained as Ca2Fe2O5 and Ca3Fe2(OH)12 in the leach residue. These residues can be supplied to the steel making industry as flux for the dephosphorization of hot metal or a raw material for the blast furnace.
AB - Zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4), one of the major forms of zinc in Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) dust, is very difficult to chemically dissolve in aqueous solutions. In our previous work, a pretreatment process referred to as "CaO treatment" was proposed as a key technology for transforming the ZnFe2O4 in EAF dust to ZnO and Ca2Fe2O5 without carbothermic reduction. Because this CaO treatment also enables the preferential removal of chloride, fluoride and heavy metals during heating with essentially no evaporation loss of zinc or iron, the CaO treated product, or "CaO treated dust", consists mainly of ZnO and Ca2Fe2O5, and contains no chloride, fluoride or heavy metals. Zinc leaching, which involves dissolving ZnO into either acidic or alkaline solutions, makes it possible to recover zinc from the CaO treated dust. In this study, the feasibility of the alkaline leaching of CaO treated dust was investigated using a NaOH solution for the selective leaching of zinc over iron and calcium, and the effect of temperature, reaction time, NaOH concentration and solid/liquid (S/L) ratio were examined. It was found that significantly more zinc was extracted from the CaO treated dust than the as-supplied raw dust by the NaOH solution. Nearly complete zinc extraction from the CaO treated dust was achieved without any notable dissolution of iron and calcium, which remained as Ca2Fe2O5 and Ca3Fe2(OH)12 in the leach residue. These residues can be supplied to the steel making industry as flux for the dephosphorization of hot metal or a raw material for the blast furnace.
KW - Abbreviation EAF Electric Arc Furnace
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U2 - 10.1016/j.hydromet.2015.11.009
DO - 10.1016/j.hydromet.2015.11.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949294023
SN - 0304-386X
VL - 159
SP - 120
EP - 125
JO - Hydrometallurgy
JF - Hydrometallurgy
ER -