Abstract
Bulk industrial solid wastes occupy a lot of our resources and release large amounts of toxic and hazardous substances to the surrounding environment, demanding innovative strategies for grinding, classification, collection, and recycling for economically ultrafine powder. A new technology for grinding, classification, collection, and recycling solid waste is proposed, using the superheated steam produced from the industrial exhaust steam to disperse, grind, classify, and collect the industrial solid waste. A large-scale steam jet mill was designed to operate at an inlet steam temperature 230–300 °C and an inlet pressure of 0.2–0.6 MPa. A kind of industrial solid waste fluidized-bed combustion ashes was used to grinding tests at different steam temperatures and inlet pressures. The total process for grinding, classification, and collection is drying. Two kinds of particle sizes are obtained. One particle size is d50 = 4.785 μm, and another particle size is d50 = 8.999 μm. For particle size d50 = 8.999 μm, the inlet temperature is 296 °C and an inlet pressure is 0.54 MPa for the grinding chamber. The steam flow is 21.7 t/h. The yield of superfine powder is 73 t/h. The power consumption is 3.76 kW h/t. The obtained superfine powder meets the national standard S95 slag. On the basis of these results, a reproducible and sustainable industrial ecological protocol using steam produced by industrial exhaust heat coupled to solid waste recycling is proposed, providing an efficient, large-scale, low-cost, promising, and green method for both solid waste recovery and industrial exhaust heat reutilization.
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This scientific work was financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51508481), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11572269), and the Longshan Academic Talent Research Support Program of the Southwest University of Science and Technology (No. 17LZX661) and was also supported by the Key Scientific Research Platform of Southwest University of Science and Technology (No. 14tdgk04).
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Zhang, M., Chen, H. Steam jet mill—a prospective solution to industrial exhaust steam and solid waste. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 17842–17854 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-1722-y
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