How to Smelt Ferronickel in The Nickel Smelting Plant. The production of ferronickel by the rotary kiln-electric furnace (RKEF) process is a rapidly developing nickel laterite ore treatment process.
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— Electric arc furnace dust with a combined zinc and lead content in excess of 20% renders the dumping of this material impossible in many countries, for both statutory and financial reasons. In the Waelz process, dust is treated in a rotary kiln where it is heated to approximately 1,200 C. lead and zinc are volatilized under reducing conditions …
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— A hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron ore (DRI) and steel scrap melting in an electric arc furnace (EAF) ... rotary kilns, rotary hearth furnaces and fluidised bed reactors. However, as seen in Fig. 5 a, 96.8% of the DRI is produced using shaft furnace technology (72.4%) and rotary kiln (24.4%) ...
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— Industrially, the pyrometallurgical treatment of laterites is mostly accomplished with a well-established method, namely, the rotary kiln–electric arc furnace (RKEF) process, which includes three...
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— Moreover, the exergy destruction due to chemical reactions of rotary dryer, rotary kiln and electric furnace is 20.4%, 27.1% and 5.1%, respectively. It is also found that combustion is the dominant factor for the efficiency loss of rotary dryer and rotary kiln and slag with high temperature contributes most for the efficiency loss of electric ...
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— Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Exergy assessment of a rotary kiln-electric furnace smelting of ferronickel alloy" by Wenjie Rong et al. Skip to search form ... and synergy of material and energy in the smelting process of ferrochrome pellets in steel belt sintering-submerged arc furnace. Yang Yu Baokuan Li Changjun Wang Zheng Fang …
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— Feeding a pelletized mixture of electric arc furnace dust with lime into a Waelz kiln makes it possible to provide effective reaction of charge components in the kiln and to reduce to reduce escape of dust. ... al. Development of Charge Pelletizing Technology Based on Electric Arc Furnace Dust for Pyrometallurgical Processing in …
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— The primary pyrometallurgical route to produce ferronickel from laterite nickel ores is the Rotary Kiln-Electric Furnace (RKEF) process. In the RKEF process, minerals undergo calcination and...
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The Rotary Kiln-Electric Furnace process is a widely recognized pyrometallurgical route for ferronickel production. This paper focuses on the rotary kiln furnace, an intermediate
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— 1. Introduction. Nickel is of particular economic consequence in the production of stainless steels, superalloys and fuel cells [1,2].The principal nickel production route comprises the reductive smelting of calcine in electric submerged arc furnaces (EAFs); calcine is the yield of reductive roasting of nickelferrous lateritic ores in rotary …
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— Among these methods, the rotary kiln-electric furnace (RKEF) process has the advantages of yielding high nickel/iron grade from crude ferronickel products, less …
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At the time, kiln capacity did not match the furnace capacity and to support the operation of two 120 MW furnaces, three rotary kilns were proposed. This paper reviews recent developments in kiln technology and combines FL Inc. and Polysius AG plans for higher kiln capacity together with the high capacity furnace concepts developed earlier.
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— The primary pyrometallurgical route to produce ferronickel from laterite nickel ores is the Rotary Kiln-Electric Furnace (RKEF) process. In the RKEF process, minerals …
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— Byproducts from integrated steel plants, such as coke ovens [1], sintering process [2], blast furnaces (BFs) [3], basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) [2], and electric arc furnaces (EAFs) [4], generate a significant amount of solid dust. Although its production is increasing, only a small portion is currently recycled due to economic considerations.
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The rotary kiln and electric furnace process has long been the most commonly employed method of recovering nickel from saprolitic laterite ores. Production improvements have been achieved over the years by the adoption of "shielded arc" smelting and the installation of water-cooled copper cooling elements in the furnace sidewalls. These ...
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Electric arc furnaces (EAF) generate much dust during operation, which contains very high percentages of zinc, lead, and ir on, as well as toxic organic substances. ... Rotary kiln process is the main stream of present EAF dust treatment, but they still have the weakness of iron-including clinker disposal. Smelting reduction
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BASED ON ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE DUST FOR PYROMETALLURGICAL PROCESSING IN ROTARY KILNS S. A. Yakornov, 1 A. M. Pan'shin,1 UDC 669.531.5 P. A. Kozlov, 2 and D. A. Ivakin3 New technology is developed for Waelz treatment of electric arc furnace dust with the addition of calcium oxide to a charge. In this case, lead and …
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EAFD is a powdery solid waste formed during the melting process of electric arc furnace waste that is rich in heavy metal elements such as Cd and Pb, poorly reactive, and has a particle size of less than 10 μm (Arnold et al., 2017; ... including Waelz kiln process, rotary hearth furnace (RHF) process, PRIMUS process, OXYCUP process, coke ...
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— Waelz slag is an iron-containing waste generated during electric arc furnace (EAF) dust processing in a rotary kiln named the Waelz process. This study focuses on the reduction smelting of the Waelz slag …
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Improving the rotary kiln-electric furnace process for ferronickel production: Data analytics-based ... nation and partial reduction in a rotary kiln, and III) smelting in an electric arc furnace ...
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— 1. Introduction. During the melting of steel scrap in an electric arc furnace (EAF), around 11–20 kg of dust (EAFD) is formed for each ton of produced steel (Liebman, 2000).This dust, which is rich in Fe and Zn oxides, was classified as a hazardous waste in the late 1980s by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), because it contains …
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— The rotary kiln-electric furnace (RKEF) smelting process was developed by Aiken Industries Inc. and applied in New Caledonia Doniambo smelter in the 1950s. ... decreasing smelting load of electric arc furnace. The flue gas from rotary kiln in the reduction process can be recycled to dry laterite ore. After purification, the CO …
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DOI: 10.1016/J.APPLTHERMALENG.2016.08.095 Corpus ID: 114547410; Material and energy flows in rotary kiln-electric furnace smelting of ferronickel alloy with energy saving @article{Liu2016MaterialAE, title={Material and energy flows in rotary kiln-electric furnace smelting of ferronickel alloy with energy saving}, author={Peng Fei Liu and Baokuan Li …
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— However, for coal-based DR the reductant is generated from non-coking coal and rotary kilns, rotary hearth furnaces and multi-hearth furnaces are used (Ghosh and Chatterjee, 2017). It has been estimated that approximately 65-75% of sponge iron production cost is attributed to the cost of raw materials (Indian Bureau of Mines, 2011).
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— The majority of DRI is melted and refined in the electric arc furnace with different process conditions compared to the melting of steel scrap due to its raw material composition being rather different. ... (HBI) in shaft furnaces [4,5,6], rotary kilns [7,8,9,10] or rotary hearth furnaces . The reduction of solid pellets is mainly realized at ...
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— The recycling of aluminum scrap and dross yields significant economic and energy savings, as well environmental benefits. The recovery of aluminum depends on many factors. The aim of this work is to experimentally investigate aluminum recovery under different conditions. In this study, aluminum dross was processed in a direct-current …
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EAF dust is a by-product of the steel production process, and refers to the dust collected during the melting of steel in an electric arc furnace. Global estimates for EAF dust production currently sit between 5 to 10 million tons annually, a staggering amount, considering the steel industry continues to experience rising demand.
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— Rotary kiln-electric furnace (RKEF) smelting is currently the world-wide mainstreaming process for ferronickel production from nickeliferous laterite ore, in spite of the high power consumption ...
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— The smelting technologies including rotary kiln-electric furnace and steel belt sintering-submerged arc furnace, have developed during the past 30 years [6]. ... [29] analyzed the performance of the electric arc furnace (EAF) process based on the second law of thermodynamics, and the efficiency is calculated to be 51.20–52.20%. Yu et al. …
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— The Rotary Kiln-Electric Furnace process is a widely recognized pyrometallurgical route for ferronickel production. This paper focuses on the rotary kiln …
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Submerged arc furnace (SAF) and the traditional rotary kiln-electric furnace (RKEF) processes have also been used for low-grade ferro-nickel production. In general, these processes yield low-grade ferro-nickel …
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A new Electric Smelting Reduction Furnace (ESRF) has been developed to solve such problems, in addition to recovering metals and conforming to regulations on pollutant …
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Rotary kilns (sometimes called calciners or rotary furnaces) are used for thermal treatment processes such as calcination, sintering, pyrolysis and firing, as well as for oxidation and reduction.These treatments can be applied to powders, granulates, suspensions and green bodies.A rotary kiln consists of a cylindrical, rotating body mounted between stationary …
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