The copper smelting industry generates copper slag as its primary solid waste (Tian et al., 2021).The pyrometallurgical process extracts approximately 80% of the copper (Zuo et al., 2022), producing 2–3 tons of copper slag for every 1 ton of copper (Qu et al., 2023).According to statistics, global copper slag emissions in 2022 alone reached 35.2 million …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Nearly 2.2 to 3.0 tons of copper slag are generated for every one-tone production of copper, leading to the generation of 4.5 million tons of copper slag very year; as of now, a total of 50 ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073A process is provided for recovering in a slag cleaning furnace the copper from smelting furnace slags discharged from a smelting furnace for copper refinery, said process being characterized in that zinc removed tailings are charged into said slag smelting furnace in an either continuous or discontinuous manner, whereby the copper recovery may be improved and valuable metals …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The hazardous components of copper slag are released into the ambient environment (Li et al., 2021a, Li et al., 2021b, Zolotova et al., 2021), resulting in environmental pollution and unsustainable developmental issues. Copper slag contains 29–45 % Fe, 25–40 % SiO 2, 5–11 % CaO, 3–7 % Al 2 O 3, and other nonferrous
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Pyrometallurgical production of molten copper generates two slags, smelting and converting. Smelting furnace slag typically contains 1%–2% Cu.
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073nically entrained matte inclusions and dissolved copper. Copper recovery from the slag requires magnetite reduction to liberate matte inclusions and create conditions for co-reduction of dissolved cuprous oxide. Efficiency of copper recovery from the slag in an electric furnace depends on number of factors, such as slag composition and properties,
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073have been steadily optimized. The electric furnace or rotary slag-cleaning furnace are now generally used to perform this task, giving a level of copper in dis-card slag typically in the range of 0.55 wt.% and 1.3 wt.%,with most plants reporting copper losses in the discard slag in the range of 0.8–1.0 wt.%.
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073To recover copper from copper slag, a novel slag cleaning method was proposed. The thermodynamics and binary phase diagram of FeO–SiO 2 were calculated first. Then, the effects of experimental parameters on the reduction of Fe 3 O 4, recovery of copper, and slag cleaning mechanism were investigated.The results showed that the addition of SiO 2 …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Global copper slag (CS) emissions reached 57.2 million tons in 2021. Despite the increasing reuse of CS, the treatment of CS is still dominated by landfill so far, which not only occupies land ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Slag is further cleaned in a slag cleaning furnace or directed to slag flotation. The SO 2 gas generated during the smelting stage is led to an acid plant to produce sulfuric acid ... Related to the slag copper content, based on the industrial experience and data, the distribution of copper to compounds in the slag phase was described as a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Copper slag is an acid slag mainly composed of Fe 2 SiO 4 and CaFeSi 2 O 6, which is classified as solid waste in the copper smelting industry (Li et al., 2019).In China, 2.2–3.0 tons of copper slag were produced per ton of refined copper, and tens of millions of tons of copper slag were released into the environment every year (Zhou et al., 2019).At present, the most …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The reverberatory slag is produced from the reverberatory smelting furnace and usually produces the slag that is more dilute in copper of about 0.6% and is discarded without slag recovery treatment (Davenport et al., 2002). The smelter slag is produced from the smelting furnaces and contains copper with average of 1.2%.
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The variety of slag compositions of Table 1, is inherent to both the concentrate composition and the extraction method applied.Each slag composition requires an appropriate treatment method for further metal recovery or for utilization as construction material [27,28].Thermal reduction of copper smelter slags with solid carbon is commonly applied in …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Pyro-metallurgical copper slag (CS) waste was used as the source material for ultrasound (US) silica extraction under acidification processes with 26 kHz with HCl, HNO3, and H2SO4 at different ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Such conditions include operating the electric furnace at metallic copper saturation, maintaining the %Fe in the electric furnace matte between 6 wt.% and 9 wt.%, not exceeding a slag temperature ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073copper oxide from the copper blast furnace slag at 5% carbon addition as a function of time at three temperatures of this study. At any given temperature, the amount of copper present in the slag falls rapidly and reaches a steady state value. As temperature increases, the rate of reduction of copper oxide from slag also increases.
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