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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Hence, the recent trends of copper smelting invariably lead to significant copper loss in slag, which needs to be recovered by means of reduction and settling in a separate slag cleaning furnace. The reduction of Cu 2 O from slags is carried out by adding carbon/coke or by injection of various reductants (e.g., different types of oil or natural ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The 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 …
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 18221755073Reactivity is the key to the successful utilization of waste materials. Ferronickel slag, copper slag, and copper tailing show a high amount of SiO 2 that forms a secondary calcium silicate hydrate if mixed with cement through a pozzolanic reaction. Steel slag has CaO as the most dominant chemical component and is close to Portland cement.
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
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Entrained copper can be recovered via pyrometallurgical slag cleaning in a settling furnace, where the slag viscosity and copper droplet size distribution (CDSD) are critical …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073On the basis of above findings, this paper adopts an analytical method of assuming the copper slag as a dynamic heat source, establishing a slag ladle simulation geometric model according to the size of 12 m 3 casting slag ladle in industrial production in accordance with 1:1 modeling. Then through the experiments on the copper slag sampled from the factory to obtain the thermal and …
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 …
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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 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 18221755073To address these challenges, the incorporation of supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) such as fly ash, blast furnace slag, limestone filler, rice husk ash, and copper slag can be beneficial [33, 34, 36]. These additions help reduce the temperature of the mix without significantly increasing costs.
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